Project: Business Process Management

Business workflow is of critical importance to most businesses. The Aitia Business Process Management System is a prototype system written in Java. Possible student projects involve extending Aitia with one or more of the following capabilities:

• How a workflow engine can distribute work items and information resources to workers at the work portals (user/situation specific -- involves user modeling)
• Hierarchical constraint satisfaction -- finding the most suitable mechanisms for activities in a process where process activities are organized hierarchically (implementation based on multiple choice queries)
• Petri-nets -- application of Petri-nets to implement a workflow engine