Workflow Management Systems. Exercise Book

This book collects some written exercises and solutions from the classworks of the course “Workgroup and Workflow Systems” at the Como campus of the Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy. Throughout the book, two approaches will be presented to describe business processes: the first approach is based on the UML (Unified Modelling Language) notation (including use case diagrams, class diagrams, activity diagrams) and on the BPMN (Business Process Modelling Notation) notation; the second approach is based on the WIDE (Worfklow on Intelligent Distributed database Environments) methodology, derived from the EU-funded project WIDE. Alexandre Mello Ferreira is a PhD student at the Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione of the Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy. His current research activity focuses on Green IT fundamentals applied to Information System. It involves energy-aware Service-based Applications, green performance indicators, adaptive systems and cloud computing. Giuseppe Pozzi is associate professor at the Politecnico di Milano, Como campus, Italy, where he has been teaching the course on Workgroup and Workflow Systems since 2004. His current research activity focuses on temporal database systems and temporal query languages, and on temporal workflow management systems.