Designing Evolutionary Workflow Processes: a Version-based Approach

Nowadays, it is important to consider the fast changing environment which drives organizations to frequently adapt their Workflow Processes (WP). Consequently, this paper deals with the design of Evolutionary Workflow Processes (EWP). EWP refer to any modification of the tasks and their coordination (process model), actors and roles (organizational model), and/or data (informational model). First, this paper proposes a global approach to ease EWP design, specification and implementation. Second, it defines a meta-model for EWP design. More precisely, this meta-model captures all the concepts involved in the design of WP, and integrates the notion of version in order to describe the evolution of WP.