Evaluation of the BPEL4People and WS-HumanTask Extensions to WS-BPEL 2.0 using the Workflow Resource Patterns
BPM Center Report, volume BPM-07-11. Department of Technology Management, Eindhoven University of Technology GPO Box 513, NL5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands, (November 2007)Abstract
One of the major objectives of workflow systems (and process-aware information systems more generally) is to facilitate the distribution and coordination of work amongst the group of human resources associated with a process. There has been explosive growth in the commercial offerings available to support this initiative as organisations seek out more effective ways in which to deploy their business processes across their workforce in a predictable, reliable and controlled manner. With the rise of the internet came a consequential extension of the underpinning technologies to embrace cross-organisational processes and the concept of the web service was born together with the notion of service oriented architectures which aim to facilitate business processes on the basis of loosely coupled (and potentially widely distributed) execution capabilities.