Database Support for Workflow Management: The WIDE Project presents the results of the ESPRIT WIDE project on advanced database support for workflow management. The book discusses the state of the art in combining database management and workflow management technology, especially in the areas of transaction and exception management. This technology is complemented by a high-level conceptual workflow model and associated workflow application design methodology. In WIDE, advanced base technology is applied, like a distributed computing model based on the corba standard. The usability of the WIDE approach is documented in this book by a discussion of two real-world applications from the insurance and health care domains. Database Support for Workflow Management: The WIDE Project serves as an excellent reference, and may be used for advanced courses on database and workflow management systems.
Paul Grefen is a full professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering & Innovation Sciences at Eindhoven University of Technology since 2003. He chairs the Information Systems subdepartment since 2006. He received his Ph.D. in 1992 from the University of Twente. From 1992 until early 2003, he held assistant and associate professor positions in the Computer Science Department at the University of Twente. He was a visiting researcher at Stanford University in 1994.
He has worked in a number of national and international research projects, both as a researcher and as a manager. In these projects, he has collaborated with a wide range of academic and industrial organizations.
His research interests include models and systems for electronic business, architectural design of complex information systems, interorganizational workflow management, high-level transaction management, and support for electronic contracting.
