Resources
Detailed documentation on process specification, case studies, and manuals explaining the design and execution environment is available.
YAWL is based on the well-known Workflow Patterns initiative and provides comprehensive support for these patterns.
YAWL uses concepts from Workflow Nets, which are derived from Petri Nets, and extends these with support for concepts such as cancellation, or-join and multiple instances.
There are a number of ways to seek support for the use of the YAWL environment. In addition, it may be possible to contribute to its enhancements.
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Research
It is imperative that complex long-lasting processes can be checked before deployment.
Exceptions cannot always be foreseen and occur naturally in the course of a running process. They give rise to important learning experiences.
Processes can exhibit complex behaviour and design time insights, e.g. wrt cost, time and resource utilisation, can be acquired through simulation.
Modern BPM environments should support configuration of reference models depending on the context in which they are to be deployed.
Visualisation
A means of improving process performance through the use of maps and visualising work items.
Declarative Workflow
For some types of applications it is preferable to specify a workflow through a collection of constraints. This is supported by the DECLARE service.
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Genie Schedule v0.1, Genie Cast v0.1 and Genie Crew
v0.1 were released and are all available to download now.
YAWL 2.0 Release Candidate 1 was released on 20th March and is available to download now.
YAWL 2.0 Beta Update 3 were released on 11th November and is available to download now.
YAWL paper is the 3rd most cited paper in Information Systems according to Scopus.
The QUT news published an article which discusses Ross Brown's work with YAWL and Second Life and is available to view here.
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Solutions Available
YAWL offers a unique solution to supporting film/tv production processes, in particular through sophisticated task coordination and form handling.
YAWL provides a highly intuitive design environment for complex processes and a corresponding execution environment.
YAWL offers a flexible solution to support healthcare processes, in particular through the use of worklets.
Product recall could benefit from the use of workflow management, particularly through
automated support for the standard procedures and by being able to show compliance with these procedures.
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About
The YAWL Foundation manages the intellectual property of the YAWL environment and has over 25 participants
There are a number of entities providing a wide range of commercial services for YAWL, including training, development and consultation
YAWL and its support environment have made great impact in academia and industry, in terms of citations, tools, and teaching.
The team behind YAWL includes highly experienced researchers and developers.
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The YAWL Foundation is a non-profit organisation that acts as custodian of all IP related to YAWL and its support environment. The YAWL Contributor Agreement
can be downloaded here – YAWL Contributor Agreement (PDF, 146Kb)
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