Integrate Policy based Management and Process based Management -- A New Approach for Workflow Management System

Policy based management and process based management are two main management paradigms that are widely used in modern information management systems. To integrate the two paradigms and take the advantages from both, a conceptual framework is presented in this paper. Some key issues to implement the framework are addressed: during build time, policy definitions, translation and mapping among policies and sub-processes, and policy conflict detection and resolution; at run-time, interaction between policy server and workflow engine, policy-enabled component, and policy deployment. A simple example of resource policy is provided