TY - GEN
T1 - A Construction Business Automation System (CBAS)
AU - Lee, Dong Eun
AU - Shi, Jonathan J.
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - Delivering a constructed facility requires a contractor identifying, documenting, implementing, and executing thousands of business processes. Business Process Reengineering (BPR) and Automation (BPA) decompose business management into processes, and explore information sharing in a virtual enterprise setting. Workflow technology (WT) originated from Office Information Systems (OIS) support definition, execution, coordination, and maintenance of business processes in a distributed environment. This research introduces a system prototype, named Construction Business Automation System (CBAS), for modeling and automating construction business processes by using workflow and object technologies. Automated construction management tasks, named Workflow Distributed iNternet Applications (Workflow DNAs), support the reusability of the developed software components, simplify process modeling, and execute business processes. This paper presents the technologies developed in the prototype including: 1) the object-oriented reusable component technology for modeling construction management tasks, 2) the Construction Business Process Modeler (CBPM), 3) the Request Driving (RD) methodology for raising business requests and instantiating corresponding process instances, and 4) the workflow technology for executing business process instances. An example process is used to illustrate these involved topics.
AB - Delivering a constructed facility requires a contractor identifying, documenting, implementing, and executing thousands of business processes. Business Process Reengineering (BPR) and Automation (BPA) decompose business management into processes, and explore information sharing in a virtual enterprise setting. Workflow technology (WT) originated from Office Information Systems (OIS) support definition, execution, coordination, and maintenance of business processes in a distributed environment. This research introduces a system prototype, named Construction Business Automation System (CBAS), for modeling and automating construction business processes by using workflow and object technologies. Automated construction management tasks, named Workflow Distributed iNternet Applications (Workflow DNAs), support the reusability of the developed software components, simplify process modeling, and execute business processes. This paper presents the technologies developed in the prototype including: 1) the object-oriented reusable component technology for modeling construction management tasks, 2) the Construction Business Process Modeler (CBPM), 3) the Request Driving (RD) methodology for raising business requests and instantiating corresponding process instances, and 4) the workflow technology for executing business process instances. An example process is used to illustrate these involved topics.
KW - Business process reengineering
KW - Computer applications
KW - Distributed processing
KW - Internet
KW - Object-oriented languages
KW - Office Automation (OA)
KW - Workflow
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=27644465391&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:27644465391
SN - 0784407541
SN - 9780784407547
T3 - Construction Research Congress 2005: Broadening Perspectives - Proceedings of the Congress
SP - 1323
EP - 1332
BT - Construction Research Congress 2005
A2 - Tommelein, I.D.
T2 - Construction Research Congress 2005: Broadening Perspectives - Proceedings of the Congress
Y2 - 5 April 2005 through 7 April 2005
ER -