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Approaches to Compute Workflow Complexity

Authors: Jorge Cardoso

Published in: Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 6291, The Role of Business Processes in Service Oriented Architectures (2006)

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During the last 20 years, complexity has been an interesting topic that has been investigated in many fields of science, such as biology, neurology, software engineering, chemistry, psychology, and economy. A survey of the various approaches to understand complexity has lead sometimes to a measurable quantity with a rigorous but narrow definition and other times as merely an ad hoc label. In this paper we investigate the complexity concept to avoid a vague use of the term `complexity' in workflow designs. We present several complexity metrics that have been used for a number of years in adjacent fields of science and explain how they can be adapted and use to evaluate the complexity of workflows.

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Jorge Cardoso. Approaches to Compute Workflow Complexity. In The Role of Business Processes in Service Oriented Architectures. Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 6291, pp. 1-15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2006)

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@InProceedings{cardoso:DagSemProc.06291.7,
  author =	{Cardoso, Jorge},
  title =	{{Approaches to Compute Workflow Complexity}},
  booktitle =	{The Role of Business Processes in Service Oriented Architectures},
  pages =	{1--15},
  series =	{Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings (DagSemProc)},
  ISSN =	{1862-4405},
  year =	{2006},
  volume =	{6291},
  editor =	{Frank Leymann and Wolfgang Reisig and Satish R. Thatte and Wil van der Aalst},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagSemProc.06291.7},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-8219},
  doi =		{10.4230/DagSemProc.06291.7},
  annote =	{Keywords: Workflow, Complexity, Business Processes, Reengineering}
}

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