Collaborative Processes Management: from Modeling to Enacting

Abstract

Collaborative work is a complex activity that involves several actors thus managing it is complicated. This article addresses some matters of controlling collaborative work in the point of view of process management. The underlying objective is to discuss the issues from modeling to enacting collaborative processes in existing process management systems. To overcome the discussed problems, we are developing a process management framework that integrates directly the concept of collaborative task into both modeling language and enacting mechanism. Moreover, we propose a flexible approach that enables users to choose dynamically a suitable way to enact their collaborative tasks.