User Services in BPAFrame, a Framework for Workflow-Management-Systems

The paper describes the design and prototyping of BPAFrame (Framework for Business Process Automation) and shows its application in environmental information tasks. The design goals are outlined including the main factors: required user services, decentralized control, and an application dependent discussion of usable middleware-platforms. The main focus of this contribution is to discuss the requirements, components and realization of a user service framework for workflow management systems. Then the implemented prototype is introduced, and an application scenario is shown.