PatternFlow: Supporting Standardized Description and Enactment of Business Processes. Kalinowski, M., da Silva Borges, M. R., & Travassos, G. H. In SBSC 2006 - Proceedings of the Brazilian Symposium on Collaborative Systems, Natal, Brazil, pages 87-97, 2006.
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The establishment of patterns to systematically address workflow requirements is important, since it should be possible for a modeled process to be described and enacted by workflow management systems. Despite the sprouting of those workflow patterns, many of them are not supported in a great amount of workflow modeling languages and workflow management systems. Moreover, many of those patterns recur quite frequently during the analysis phase of workflow projects, which highlights the importance of supporting such patterns. In this paper we present PatternFlow, a framework for describing and enacting business processes whose requirements set was derived mainly from knowledge acquired from the analysis of documented workflow patterns. PatternFlow has been used, among others, to implement ISPIS, a framework for supporting the software inspection process. Evaluations of ISPIS in academy and industry allowed us to gain additional insight regarding the feasibility of using PatternFlow for enacting processes used in real industrial environments.

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