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APWeb 2009, WAIM 2009: Advances in Web and Network Technologies, and Information Management pp 138–147Cite as

Easy Flow: New Generation Business Process Model

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Now workflow technique is almost the unique candidate to handle a business process in a software application. But graph based traditional workflow is not enough flexible in software engineer which is well known since it was introduced from manufacture industry in 1980s. Until now how to make workflow more flexible is also an unresolved problem in workflow technique which is a serious bottleneck for its popularization, although many efforts have been done to advance it. Author thinks it is wrong to design a process model based on graph theory, which is just the reason to cause workflow so inflexible. In this paper, author presents new generation process model – Easy Flow based on task and its semantic, which is easy to understand, design, modify and refactor a business process. Easy Flow model is completely different with workflow model, which is more adept to control a “changing” business process in an enterprise application. Easy Flow will replace workflow to realize real business process management in future applications.

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  1. School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University, China

    Qi Sui, Dong-qing Yang & Teng-jiao Wang

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

    Lei Chen

  2. Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia

    Chengfei Liu

  3. Renmin Universty of China, China

    Xiao Zhang

  4. Renmin University China, China

    Shan Wang

  5. Dept. of Industrial Economics and Technology Management, NTNU, Norway

    Darijus Strasunskas

  6. NTNU, Norway

    Stein L. Tomassen

  7. AOL, China

    Jinghai Rao

  8. SAP Research China, China

    Wen-Syan Li

  9. Comp. Sci. and Eng. Dept., Arizona State University, 85287, Tempe, AZ

    K. Selçuk Candan

  10. Dickson Computer Systems, 7A Victory Avenue 4th floor, Homantin, Kln, P.O. Box, Hong Kong

    Dickson K. W. Chiu

  11. Zhejiang Gongshang University, China

    Yi Zhuang

  12. University of Colorado at Boulder, USA

    Clarence A. Ellis

  13. Kyonggi University, Korea

    Kwang-Hoon Kim

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Sui, Q., Yang, Dq., Wang, Tj. (2009). Easy Flow: New Generation Business Process Model. In: Chen, L., et al. Advances in Web and Network Technologies, and Information Management. APWeb WAIM 2009 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5731. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03996-6_14

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