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From a Social Wiki to a Social Workflow System

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This paper presents an approach for using wikis in an organizational context and a proto-type implementation for developing a wiki-based workflow system. We provide general considerations and requirements for changing a wiki’s application context from public to organizational and will describe consequences for wiki architecture and policy management. The presented workflow system is based on an open-source wiki tool and is targeted at collaborative workflow design and activity management.

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  1. Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Vienna, Austria

    Gustaf Neumann & Selim Erol

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  1. Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Via Golgi 40, 20133, Milano, Italy

    Danilo Ardagna

  2. Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, Via Salaria 113,, 00198, Roma, Italy

    Massimo Mecella

  3. Department of Computing, Macquarie University, 2109, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Jian Yang

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Neumann, G., Erol, S. (2009). From a Social Wiki to a Social Workflow System. In: Ardagna, D., Mecella, M., Yang, J. (eds) Business Process Management Workshops. BPM 2008. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 17. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00328-8_70

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