WfMC_20080225_Meeting

 

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Public Description - WfMC_20080225_Meeting

WfMC Working Group Meeting, Feb 26, 2008

Colocated with the BPM Tech Conference in Nashville. Download the brochure and also awards showcase. Don't miss the BPM Technology Standards presentation 2:30 to 5:30 on Monday afternoon.

Pick up the latest XPDL spec at http://www.wfmc.org/standards/XPDL_DC.html

Schedule for TC Meeting

Tuesday February 26

  • 9:00 ? 12:00 XPDL Working Group Session
  • 1:00 ? 5:00 presumably focused on XPDL 2.1 conformance issues

Agenda

  • 2008 Calendar
  • XPDL
    • Release 2.1 Status. We hope to hold the final discussion session before the membership vote on rataification.
    • Open session for non members? Perhaps a special session for non members in order to get feedback on the standard.
    • XPDL conformance in Japan
  • IF/5 - lets come up with a better name for this, and lets hear about progress by Shane and Michael
  • IF/2 - proposing a new working group on this: a protocol to retrieve worklist as XML data. Would allow any worklist client to access any workflow engine. Would like proposals for a name of this protocol, and a volunteer to chair.
  • Wf-XML-R status

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Notes from Meeting

Attendees

Keith Swenson, Michael zur Muehlen, Robert Shapiro, Shane Gabie, Justin Brunt, Nathaniel Palmer (part time).

Agenda

XPDL 2.1

No known issues with XPDL 2.1.

XPDL Topics

Activity Cost enhancement proposed by Shane Gabie.

Cost Amount UnitOfTime (S,M,H,D,W) Type (Wages, CPU, Person, Fuel, Depreciation, Maintenance?)

Want to be able to have all costs associated with an activity.

Fixed costs and resources associated with Model. Want to be able to know how to obtain associated information at simulation runtime.

So could be associated with a particpant.

Shane will take ownership of wiki page that describes Activity based Costing and update with current proposals as discussed.

Michael proposes additional spec for this topic so that it could be added as an extended attribute. Perhaps keep the existing constructs for basic support.

Robert will work with Shane and Michael.

XPDL Conformance

Change needs to be made - in XMLSpy - if assign xsl to document and then run transform and namespace for schema set to 2001 schema it fails schema test. Tom Laverty is modifying so that it will continue. Schema include integrtity checking and if there are references to other things that are not found it fails the integrity check. Can be avoided by removing schema checking.

Simple conformance process was discussed. Robert had reworked this from the original proposed by Bruce Silver. Constructs such as Inclusive OR Gateway were removed. Standard process needs further work.

Issues with BPMN spec and hence XPDL which must attempt to persist various constructs. Example is of Inclusive OR construct.

Need specific recommendations if you want a BPMN model to be portable.

Hopefuly will get feedback in the conformance which ca be examined and confomance recommendations and/or specification improved.

Interface 5

Needs name other than just merely Interface 5.

After discyssion prefered name is: Business Process Analytics Format - BPAF

Michael and Shane led the group on discussions of what was required for this interface and possible schemas for the events to be published by a BPM system.

Interface 2

Keith propose new working group but not enough members present to discuss in detail. This group will need a chairman to lead it.

BPEL4People

Calendar

  • April 21 - 24 Washington - Co-hosted by Transformation Innovation, propose Half day BPM seminar on 24th. (COMMITTED)
  • May 1 London BPM Tutorial following Gartner event - 3 hour tutorisal, 1/2 day meeting (new member meeting), working session and dinner same night
  • June 17 - 19, San Francisco, Gilbane Conference?
  • September 10 - 12 Washington DC, BPM Tutorial (COMMITTED)
  • September Meeting?
    • Academic BPM Conference September 1 - 4 in Milano (Standards Tutorial Offer?)
    • Cordys Castle, Holland?
  • KM World 2008, November, San Francisco
    • Calling for Speakers
  • Event in November? (January?)
    • Shanghai
    • Seoul
    • India
    • Japan (Japan BPM Association Host)
    • WfMC Asia Meeting
  • Other ideas?