Thesis-2003-Cheung.pdf (7.05 MB)
Compliance flow: an intelligent workflow management system to support engineering processes
thesis
posted on 2018-10-31, 09:01 authored by Yee Chung CheungThis work is about extending the scope of current workflow management systems to support
engineering processes. On the one hand engineering processes are relatively dynamic, and on the
other their specification and performance are constrained by industry standards and guidelines
for the sake of product acceptability, such as IEC 61508 for safety and ISO 9001 for quality.
A number of technologies have been proposed to increase the adaptability of current workflow
systems to deal with dynamic situations. A primary concern is how to support open-ended
processes that cannot be completely specified in detail prior to their execution. A survey of
adaptive workflow systems is given and the enabling technologies are discussed.
Engineering processes are studied and their characteristics are identified and discussed. Current
workflow systems have been successfully used in managing "administrative" processes for some
time, but they lack the flexibility to support dynamic, unpredictable, collaborative, and highly
interdependent engineering processes. [Continues.]
History
School
- Science
Department
- Computer Science
Publisher
© Yee Chung CheungPublisher statement
This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
2003Notes
A Doctoral Thesis. Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of Doctor of Philosophy at Loughborough University.Language
- en