Abstract The events of September 11th, 2001 have demonstrated the need for better preparedness in the event of another terrorist attack here in the United States. It is well demonstrated that problems of response and the delivery of services during the hours and days immediately following the attacks at the World Trade Center were due, in part, to poorly integrated workflows. We must learn from the mistakes and deficiencies of the past, while bringing to bear the latest advances in the field, when...

Abstract The ability to communicate between workflows from different organizations is a mandatory feature that is here to stay. With the need to seamlessly share information comes the necessity to protect proprietary information from unauthorized partners. The work presented in this thesis expands the inter-organizational workflow tool previously developed at Monmouth University, in the Software Engineering Department, in several dimensions. The first, and most important, is the addition of a...

Abstract The dyanamic nature of incident command systems and their requirement for high flexibility raise a challenge to the research and implementation of workflows. The signficance of applying formal approaches to the modeling and analysis of workflows has been well recognized and several such approaches have been proposed. However, these approaches require users to master considerable knowledge of the particular formalisms, which impacts their application on a larger scale. To address these...