Status-quo and Trends of Workflow Task Assignment

Task assignment is one of the key technologies of workflow management.We analyzed the current academic researches and workflow products,found that the description of task assignment is very weak.We provide a new rule-based workflow task assignment description model to promote the expressing power,flexibility,and ease of use.The key features of the task assignment model are business rule based and using bidirectional navigation in the organization model and the workflow model.Especially,the organization model is very close to the actual business environment,not just the roles and employees.