Workflow Patterns

By Wil M.P. van der Aalst. Distributed and parallel databases, 2003

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Modeling Quality of Service for Workflows and Web Service Processes (2002, background): “Based on a study on fifteen major workflow systems and the workflow patterns that they support (Aalst, Barros et al. 2002), fifteen of the workflow systems studied supported the reduction rules (1)(2)(3), ten supported the reduction rule (5), and eight supported the reduction rules (4).”
Service Interaction Patterns (2005, background): “– Multiple instances with a priori runtime knowledge (MIRT) (van der Aalst et al. 2003).”
Genetic Process Mining (2005, methodology): “An overview of the control-flow patterns supported by the Eastman workflow is provided in [13].”
Enabling Flexibility in Process-Aware Information Systems (2012, methodology): “For a complete account of these patterns we refer to [23, 309].”
On the Suitability of BPMN for Business Process Modelling (2006, background): “These requirements are described in terms of the Workflow Control-flow Patterns [2].”
An evaluation of conceptual business process modelling languages (2006, methodology): “The generic meta-model is inspired by business process theory [5] [6] [8] [16], workflow patterns [20], [21], and the Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC) [22].”