| authors |
Dourish, P., Holmes, J., MacLean, A., Marqvardsen, P. and Zbyslaw, A. |
| year |
1996 |
| title |
Freeflow: Mediating Between Representation and Action in Workflow Systems |
| source |
Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work CSCW’96, Boston, USA |
| summary |
In order to understand some problems associated with workflow, we set out an analysis of workflow systems, identifying a number of basic issues in the underlying technology. This points to the conflation of temporal and dependency information as the source of a number of these problems. We describe Freeflow, a prototype which addresses these problems using a variety of technical innovations, including a rich constraint-based process modelling formalism, and the use of declarative dependency relationships. Its focus is on mediation between process "and action, rather than the enactment of a process. We outline the system and its design principles, and illustrate the features of our approach with examples from ongoing work. |
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