Abstract According to the Business Rules Group, "a business rule is a statement that defines or constrains some aspect of the business. It is intended to assert business structure or to control or influence the behavior of the business". [sic] Therefore business rules [BR] comprise the set of corporate policies, laws and industry standards, government regulations that are needed in order to properly run a business. The business rules can be enforced by...

Abstract Inter-organizational workflows represent one possible technology that supports the implementation of the business-to-business integration concept. The concept has been emphasized by the continuously growing e-commerce applications. One important aspect of e-commerce is the ability to rapidly react to changes imposed by trading partners, or market environments. Therefore, we need to represent workflows that allow for a quick implementation of change. In this thesis we focus on the ...

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...

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection consists of theses written by students enrolled in the Monmouth University graduate Software Engineering program. The holdings are bound print documents that were submitted in partial fulfillment of requirements for the Master of Science degree.

Abstract This thesis extends Workflow Intuitive Formal Approach (WIFA), an intuitive yet formal workflow formalism introduced to satisfy the workflow management needs of incident command systems, to take resources into account when modeling and enacting workflows. Resources can become important decision factors when combined with control flow information. In many situations, business processes are constrained by scarce resources. The lack of resources can cause contention, the need for some tasks...

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 This thesis presents a web-based enactment tool for workflows built using a WIFA tool or a resource-constrained WIFA tool. WIFA is an intutiive yet formal workflow formalism introduced to satisfy the workflow management needs of incident command systems. Resource-constrained WIFA extends WIFA by taking resources into account when modeling and enacting workflows. The existing stand-alone tools developed by WIFA or resource-constrained WIFA are good for workflow editing and verification....

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...