Modern Business Process Automation

Arthur H.M. ter Hofstede, PhD, is a Professor at Queensland University of Technology. He is an original contributor to the well-known workflow patterns as well as a codesigner of the YAWL language and manager of the development of its open-source support environment. Wil M.P. van der Aalst, PhD, is a Professor at Eindhoven University of Technology and an Adjunct Professor at Queensland University of Technology. He is coauthor of the textbook Workflow Management: Models, Methods, and Systems and editor of several other books in the areas of Business Process Management and Petri nets. Michael Adams, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer at Queensland University of Technology. He has developed the concepts of Worklets and Exlets to deal with workflow evolution and unexpected exceptions in YAWL. In addition, he is currently the technical lead of the YAWL support environment. Nick Russell, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Eindhoven University of Technology. He has conducted extensive research in the area of workflow patterns leading to collections of control-flow, data, resource and exception handling patterns. This work formed the basis for newYAWL and the solutions to resource and exception handling in YAWL 2.0.

• Concepts.- The Language: Rationale and Fundamentals.- Advanced Synchronization.- Flexibility and Change.- Dynamic Workflow.- Exception Handling.- Declarative Workflow.- The Core System.- The Architecture.- The Design Environment.- The Runtime Environment.- Services.- The Resource Service.- The Worklet Service.- The Declare Service.- Positioning.- The Business Process Modeling Notation.- EPCs.- The Business Process Execution Language.- Open Source Workflow Systems.- Advanced Topics.- Process Mining and Simulation.- Process Configuration.- Process Integration.- Verification.- Case Studies.- YAWL4Healthcare.- YAWL4Film.- Epilogue.- Epilogue.- Appendices.- Appendix A The Order Fulfillment Process Model.