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A model-driven engineering method is presented that provides designers with methodological guidance on how to systematically derive user interfaces of workflow information systems from a series of models. For this purpose, a workflow is recursively decomposed into processes that are in turn decomposed into tasks. Each task gives rise to a task model whose structure, ordering, and connection with the domain model allows a semi-automated generation of corresponding user interfaces by model-to-model transformation. Reshuffling tasks within a same process or reordering processes within a same workflow is straightforwardly propagated as a natural consequence of the mapping model used in the model-driven engineering. The various models involved in the method can be edited in a graphical editor based on Petri nets and simulated interactively. This editor also contains a set of workflow user interface patterns that are ready to use. The output file generated by the editor can then be exploited by a workflow execution engine to produce a running workflow system.
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García, J.G., Lemaigre, C., Vanderdonckt, J., González Calleros, J.M. (2009). Model-Driven Engineering of Workflow User Interfaces. In: Lopez Jaquero, V., Montero Simarro, F., Molina Masso, J., Vanderdonckt, J. (eds) Computer-Aided Design of User Interfaces VI. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-206-1_2
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