%0 Journal Article
%T Enhancing Flexibility of Workflow Systems
%A A. Elfatatry
%A Z. Mohamed
%A M. Eleskandarany
%J International Journal of Software Engineering
%D 2010
%I Software Engineering Competence Center (SECC)
%X This research is concerned with the problem of software flexibility. Specifically, itaddresses the problem of managing change in workflow management systems.A large change in business requirements naturally leads to a large change inthe supporting software. However, a small change in business requirementsmay lead to a huge change in the supporting software. This is a result of softwaresystems that are built with no consideration to flexibility. The suggestedsolution is based on separating activities from execution rules. Activities areimplemented as a set of loosely coupled services. Services can be replacedwhen necessary. The execution sequence may be changed without the need torewrite or reconstruct a given workflow. The work presented here is based uponongoing research into software application flexibility which focuses on buildingflexible workflow engines.
%K Workflow management system
%K flexible workflow
%K Business Rules
%K Services oriented architecture
%U http://www.ijse.org.eg/Content/Vol3/No1/Vol3_No1_6.pdf