TY - JOUR
T1 - FlowWiki
T2 - A wiki based platform for ad hoc collaborative workflows
AU - Jung, Jae Yoon
AU - Kim, Kwanho
AU - Shin, Dongmin
AU - Park, Jonghun
PY - 2011/2
Y1 - 2011/2
N2 - Traditional workflow management systems provide rich capabilities for designing, executing, and monitoring well-defined collaborative processes. Yet, for many occasions of collaboration, we do not often have sufficient information about who will participate, what activities people will carry out, and how the entire workflow will change. Accordingly, the problem of managing flexible workflows has been receiving increasing attention during the last decade. This paper presents a novel approach by which collaborative workflows can be configured independently as needed by participants and managed in an ad hoc way. Motivated by the emerging paradigm of collective intelligence, the proposed platform, named FlowWiki, provides a set of useful mechanisms to enable dynamic collaborations without requiring prescribed collaboration model. FlowWiki is an extension of conventional wiki system, and it aims for flexibly managing collaborative workflows by allowing on-demand workflow configuration and event-driven interactions.
AB - Traditional workflow management systems provide rich capabilities for designing, executing, and monitoring well-defined collaborative processes. Yet, for many occasions of collaboration, we do not often have sufficient information about who will participate, what activities people will carry out, and how the entire workflow will change. Accordingly, the problem of managing flexible workflows has been receiving increasing attention during the last decade. This paper presents a novel approach by which collaborative workflows can be configured independently as needed by participants and managed in an ad hoc way. Motivated by the emerging paradigm of collective intelligence, the proposed platform, named FlowWiki, provides a set of useful mechanisms to enable dynamic collaborations without requiring prescribed collaboration model. FlowWiki is an extension of conventional wiki system, and it aims for flexibly managing collaborative workflows by allowing on-demand workflow configuration and event-driven interactions.
KW - Ad-hoc collaboration
KW - Collaborative workflows
KW - Emergent collaboration
KW - Wiki
KW - Workflow management
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77957999314&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.knosys.2010.07.015
DO - 10.1016/j.knosys.2010.07.015
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:77957999314
SN - 0950-7051
VL - 24
SP - 154
EP - 165
JO - Knowledge-Based Systems
JF - Knowledge-Based Systems
IS - 1
ER -