Design and Implementation of a Flexible Workflow Management System

In modern society, flexible workflow is necessary for enterprises which will enable them to keep up with market variations and new technologies quickly, and to improve the whole efficiency of the enterprise. Firstly, this paper presents a formal application model of flexible process for Flexible Workflow Management System (or FWMS in short). Then, we describe the prototype in detail and give the architecture and functional modules of it. Moreover, the prototype is implemented practically with Struts, Hibernate software framework as a web application. We also give a flexible homework assignment system as a application of the prototype system which can support personalized homework assignments and communications.

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