The use of workflow is not limited to only software applications. It should be included in every business process automation not limited to any domain. Even processes such as patent filing, PhD research thesis evaluation & submission, production, manufacturing, e-commerce, recruitment, cloud computing, embedded systems etc should facilitate the use of workflows.
I think it should not be limited to specific domains as its double.
you can use it and better check the Hai zhuge papers he is very proficiency and all his in this area good luck
It shouldn't be limited to only certain domains but it will be until we fix the problem of cross domain sharing. Workflows has data and applications (humans or machines) mashed up to create a result. By limiting to certain domains and even beyond this to certain machine languages or human languages we limit our abilities to adapt or drawing future solutions from modification or tweaking of our current workflows. Many times the solutions we seek are one off (one data source change or one application function change) in our workflow. These create new results in new data that can change our decisions.
The workflow paradigm, early adopted in the business context is also useful for modeling scientific applications on multiple science domains and allowing flexible mappings between the application abstractions and the underlying computing infrastructures namely large distributed infrastructures such as big clusters, Grids and Clouds.
However, currently, most of the existing scientific workflows tools do not offer adequate support to facilitate the development of several challenging scenarios that are becoming more important for emerging large-scale, distributed, and dynamic applications. As examples of currently open issues, existing workflow approaches still exhibit critical dependencies on a centralized enactment engine, and they lack flexibility in supporting the execution of long-running workflows with multiple iterations or even infinite iterations and allowing their structural and behavioral dynamic reconfiguration.
Luis Assuncao Thank you for your reply. I agree with the context and have worked on dynamic workflow reconfiguration as well.
Dr. Shweta:
I agree workflow has been included in most business process automation domains. I have applied to product management arena. Based on what I know, there are many areas in product development, product design and product life-cycle improvements where it can be applied. Take a look.
Thanks
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