Leading the World in Process Innovation

     
 
 

Resources
 

Articles
Detailed documentation on process specification, case studies, and manuals explaining the design and execution environment is available.

Patterns
YAWL is based on the well-known Workflow Patterns initiative and provides comprehensive support for these patterns.

Lexicon
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.

Community
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.

 

Research
 

Verification
It is imperative that complex long-lasting processes can be checked before deployment.

Dynamic Flexibility & Exception Handling
Exceptions cannot always be foreseen and occur naturally in the course of a running process. They give rise to important learning experiences.

Simulation
Processes can exhibit complex behaviour and design time insights, e.g. wrt cost, time and resource utilisation, can be acquired through simulation.

Configuration
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.

 

Latest News
 

5 August 2008 - Article about YAWL4film
The QUT news published an article about our work in YAWL4film and is available to view here.

10 July 2008 - YAWL 2.0 Beta Update 1
YAWL 2.0 Beta Update 1 (new engine and editor files) were released on 9th July and is availabe to download now.

5 June 2008 - YAWL 2.0 Beta
YAWL 2.0 Beta has just been released and is available to download now.

27 May 2008 - YAWL website
The new YAWL website has been released.

 

         

Solutions Available
 

Film & TV
YAWL offers a unique solution to supporting film/tv production processes, in particular through sophisticated task coordination and form handling.

Business Process Management
YAWL provides a highly inituitive design environment for complex processes and a corresponding execution environment.

Health Care and Provision
YAWL offers a flexible solution to support healthcare processes, in particular through the use of worklets.

 

About
 

YAWL Foundation
The YAWL Foundation manages the intellectual property of the YAWL environment and has over 25 participants

YAWL Group
The YAWL Group provides a wide range of commercial services for YAWL, including training, development and consultation

Adoption
YAWL and its support environment have made great impact in academia and industry, in terms of citations, tools, and teaching.

Team
The team behind YAWL includes highly experienced researchers and developers.

 

Downloads
 

 
 

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, 149Kb)

         
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