Workflows in Dynamic Software Systems

Abstract

Business software systems and applications use businessprocess management concepts to organize and automate processes.Incorporating a business process management system in existing businessapplications is a pretty complex task and, as well, is very expensive interms of time and human resources. The article presents a newlyconceived Framework for Dynamic Business Applications - a softwareplatform that allows business users (domain experts) to defne at runtime all business objects that they will work with, their properties,relationships, and restrictions of their business/domain model. This isvery similar to what can be done with business ontologies regardingrepresentation of entities, ideas, and events, along with their propertiesand relations. After defning them, business users can use them topopulate data in the application and later apply this data for dataextraction, analysis, visualization, and reporting.ACM Computing Classifiation Sstem (1998): D.2.2, D.4.1, H.4.1.