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• 15 Mar 14
  

  luisbarbeiro
  • Workflow improvement theories
  • workstream path
  • Evaluation of resources, both physical and human

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• 05 Feb 14
  

  Stacey Chen

  Workflow

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• 06 Mar 13
  

  • A workflow can usually be described using formal or informal flow diagramming techniques, showing directed flows between processing steps. Single processing steps or components of a workflow can basically be defined by three parameters:

     
     
    1. input description: the information, material and energy required to complete the step
     
    2. transformation rules, algorithms, which may be carried out by associated human roles or machines, or a combination
     
    3. output description: the information, material and energy produced by the step and provided as input to downstream steps.
     
     

    Components can only be plugged together if the output of one previous (set of) component(s) is equal to the mandatory input requirements of the following component. Thus, the essential description of a component actually comprises only in- and output that are described fully in terms of data types and their meaning (semantics). The algorithms' or rules' description need only be included when there are several alternative ways to transform one type of input into one type of output – possibly with different accuracy, speed, etc.

     

    When the components are non-local services that are invoked remotely via a computer network, such as Web services, additional descriptors (such as QoS and availability) also must be considered.
• 26 Feb 13
  

  Nicole Skarlatos
  • Workflow
  • A workflow consists of a sequence of concatenated (connected) steps. Emphasis is on the flow paradigm, where each step follows the precedent without delay or gap and ends just before the subsequent step may

  • Workflow concepts are closely related to other concepts used to describe organizational structure, such as silos, functions, teams, projects, policies and hierarchies. Workflows may be viewed as one primitive building block of organizations. The relationships among these concepts are described later in this entry.

     

    The term workflow is used in computer programming to capture and develop human-to-machine interaction.

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• 17 Feb 13
  

  madeleineh166

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  • flow paradigm, where each step follows the precedent without delay or gap and ends just before the subsequent step may begin.
  • A workflow consists of a sequence of concatenated (connected) steps.
  • his concept is related to non overlapping tasks of single resources.

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• 13 Feb 13
  

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  • A workflow consists of a sequence of concatenated (connected) steps.
  • This concept is related to non overlapping tasks of single resources
  • each step follows the precedent without delay or gap and ends just before the subsequent step may begin.
  • an organization of staff, or one or more simple or complex mechanisms.
  • It is a depiction of a sequence of operations, declared as work of a person, a group of persons
  • Workflow concepts are closely related to other concepts used to describe organizational structure, such as silos, functions, teams, projects, policies and hierarchies. Workflows may be viewed as one primitive building block of organizations. The relationships among these concepts are described later in this entry.
  • The term workflow is used in computer programming to capture and develop human-to-machine interaction.
  • The concept of workflow is closely related to several fields in operations research and other areas that study the nature of work, either quantitatively or qualitatively, such as artificial intelligence (in particular, the sub-discipline of AI planning) and ethnography. The term workflow is more commonly used in particular industries, such as printing and professional domains, where it may have particular specialized meanings.
  • Processes: A process is a more specific notion than workflow and can apply to physical or biological processes, for instance.
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    • Planning and scheduling: A plan is a description of the logically necessary, partially ordered set of activities required to accomplish a specific goal given certain starting conditions.
  • • mechanisms required to execute the same plan repeatedly.
     
  • Flow control is a control concept applied to workflows, to distinguish from static control of buffers of material or orders, to mean instead a more dynamic control of flow speed and flow volumes in motion and in process.
  • 1. In-transit visibility is a monitoring concept that applies to transported material as well as to work in process or work in progress, i.e., workflows.
     
     

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  Janelle Alele

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  • A workflow consists of a sequence of concatenated (connected) steps. Emphasis is on the flow paradigm, where each step follows the precedent without delay or gap and ends just before the subsequent step may begin. This concept is related to non overlapping tasks of single resources.

     

    It is a depiction of a sequence of operations, declared as work of a person, a group of persons,^[1] an organization of staff, or one or more simple or complex mechanisms. Workflow may be seen as any abstraction of real work. For control purposes, workflow may be a view on real work under a chosen aspect,^[2] thus serving as a virtual representation of actual work. The flow being described may refer to a document or product that is being transferred from one step to another.
• 22 Oct 12
  

  Ben Miller

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  • It is a depiction of a sequence of operations, declared as work of a person, a group of persons,^[1] an organization of staff, or one or more simple or complex mechanisms. Workflow may be seen as any abstraction of real work
• 31 May 12
  

  Aldo De Martelaere

  Content management

• 16 Apr 12
  

  Scott Noble

  A workflow consists of a sequence of concatenated (connected) steps. Emphasis is on the flow paradigm, where each step follows the precedent without delay or gap and ends just before the subsequent step may begin. This concept is related to non overlapping tasks of single resources

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• 21 Mar 12
  

  nik hermanovski

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• 13 Mar 12
  

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  workflow Wikipedia

• 09 Mar 12
  

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• 23 Feb 12
  

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    This article includes a list of references, related reading or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations. Please improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (April 2009)

     
  • A workflow consists of a sequence of concatenated (connected) steps. Emphasis is on the flow paradigm, where each step follows the precedent without delay or gap and ends just before the subsequent step may begin. This concept is related to non overlapping tasks of single resources.

  •  

    Workflow concepts are closely related to other concepts used to describe organizational structure, such as silos, functions, teams, projects, policies and hierarchies. Workflows may be viewed as one primitive building block of organizations. The relationships among these concepts are described later in this entry.

     
  • A workflow management system is a computer system that manages and defines a series of tasks within an organization to produce a final outcome or outcomes. Workflow management systems allow the user to define different workflows for different types of jobs or processes. For example, in a manufacturing setting, a design document might be automatically routed from designer to a technical director to the production engineer. At each stage in the workflow, one individual or group is responsible for a specific task. Once the task is complete, the workflow software ensures that the individuals responsible for the next task are notified and receive the data they need to execute their stage of the process. Workflow management systems also automate redundant tasks and ensure that uncompleted tasks are followed up

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• 16 Feb 12
  

  Dajiah Elliott

  wctaflatclassroomproject workflow_software wctafcp3C workflow

  • each step follows the precedent without delay or gap and ends just before the subsequent step may b
  • A workflow consists of a sequence of concatenated (connected) steps.

  • may refer to a document or product that is being transferred from one step to another.

     
  • closely related to other concepts used to describe organizational structure
  • The term workflow is used in computer programming to capture and develop human-to-machine interaction.

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• 03 Feb 12
  

  Morgan Zimmerman

  Workflow

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  • where each step follows the precedent without delay
  • and ends just before the subsequent step may begin
  • A workflow consists of
  • (connected) steps.
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    t is a depiction of a sequence of operations, declared as work of a person, a group of persons,^[1] an organization of staff, or one or more simple or complex mechanisms. Workflow may

    be seen as any abstraction of real work. For control purposes, workflow may be a view on real work under a chosen aspect,^[2] thus serving as a virtual representation of actual work.
  • t is a depiction of a sequence of operations, declared as work of a person, a group of persons,^[1] an organization of staff, or one or more simple or complex mechanisms
  • The term workflow is used in computer programming to capture and develop human-to-machine interaction.
  • Planning and scheduling
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    plan is a description of the logically necessary, partially ordered set of activities required to accomplish a specific goal given certain starting conditions. A plan, when augmented with a schedule and resource allocation calculations, completely defines a particular instance of systematic processing in pursuit of a goal. A workflow may be viewed as an (often optimal or near-optimal) realization of the mechanisms required to execute the same plan repeatedly.
  • control concept applied to workflows
  • to mean instead a more dynamic control of flow speed and flow volumes in motion and in process
  • Flow control
  • The common conceptual models of modern operations research, including flow shops, job shops and queuing systems,^[4] can be found in early forms in early 20th century industry.
  • the workstream path is modelled in such a way as to evaluate the efficiency of the flow route through internal silos with a view to increasing discrete control of uniquely identified business attributes and rules and reducing potential low efficiency drivers
  • Evaluation of resources, both physical and human is essential
  • to create smoother transitions between tasks.
  • Single processing steps or components of a workflow can basically be defined by three parameters:
  • • input description: the information, material and energy required to complete the step
     
    • transformation rules, algorithms, which may be carried out by associated human roles or machines, or a combination
     
    • output description: the information, material and energy produced by the step and provided as input to downstream steps.

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• 02 Feb 12
  

  Dawson B

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• 01 Feb 12
  

  Legin Fleming
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  mason loosle

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  • The concept of workflow is closely related to several fields in operations research and other areas that study the nature of work, either quantitatively or qualitatively, such as artificial intelligence (in particular, the sub-discipline of AI planning) and ethnography. The term workflow is more commonly used in particular industries, such as printing and professional domains, where it may have particular specialized meanings.

     
     
    1. Processes: A process is a more specific notion than workflow and can apply to physical or biological processes, for instance. In the context of concepts surrounding work, a process may be distinguished from a workflow by the fact that it has well-defined inputs, outputs and purposes, while the notion of workflow may apply more generally to any systematic pattern of activity (such as all processes occurring in a machine shop).
     
    2. Planning and scheduling: A plan is a description of the logically necessary, partially ordered set of activities required to accomplish a specific goal given certain starting conditions. A plan, when augmented with a schedule and resource allocation calculations, completely defines a particular instance of systematic processing in pursuit of a goal. A workflow may be viewed as an (often optimal or near-optimal) realization of the mechanisms required to execute the same plan repeatedly.
     
    3. Flow control is a control concept applied to workflows, to distinguish from static control of buffers of material or orders, to mean instead a more dynamic control of flow speed and flow volumes in motion and in process. Such orientation to dynamic aspects is the basic foundation to prepare for more advanced job shop controls, such as just-in-time or just-in-sequence.
     
    4. In-transit visibility is a monitoring concept that applies to transported material as well as to work in process or work in progress, i.e., workflows.

  • The modern history of workflows can be traced to Frederick Taylor^[3] and H. Gantt. Rudolf Laban and Warren Lamb contributed to this in England. Together, Taylor and Gantt launched the study of the deliberate, rational organization of work in the context of manufacturing. The types of workflow of concern to Taylor and his contemporaries primarily involved mass and energy flows. These were studied and improved using time and motion studies. While the assembly line remains the most famous example of a workflow from this era, the early thinking around work was far more sophisticated than is commonly understood. The notion of flow was more than a sequential breakdown of processing. The common conceptual models of modern operations research, including flow shops, job shops and queuing systems,^[4] can be found in early forms in early 20th century industry.

     

    Information-based workflows began to grow during this era, although the concept of an information flow lacked flexibility. A particularly influential figure was Melvil Dewey (inventor of the eponymous Dewey Decimal System, who was also responsible for the development of the hanging file folder). This era is thus identified with the simplest notions of workflow optimization: throughput and resource utilization.

     

    The cultural impact of workflow optimization during this era can be understood through films such as Chaplin's classic Modern Times. These concepts did not stay confined to the shop floor. One magazine invited housewives to puzzle over the fastest way to toast three slices of bread on a one-side, two-slice grill. The book Cheaper by the Dozen introduced the emerging concepts to the context of family life.
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  kayla clark

  workflow_software wctafcp wctafcp3C

  • A workflow consists of a sequence of concatenated (connected) steps. Emphasis is on the flow paradigm, where each step follows the precedent without delay or gap and ends just before the subsequent step may begin. This concept is related to non overlapping tasks of single resources.

     

  • Workflow concepts are closely related to other concepts used to describe organizational structure, such as silos, functions, teams, projects, policies and hierarchies. Workflows may be viewed as one primitive building block of organizations. The relationships among these concepts are described later in this entry.

     
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  Bailey Bourque

  Wiki with various types of workflow software and history behind the original workflow software programs.

  flatclassroomproject workflow_software

  • The flow being described may refer to a document or product that is being transferred from one step to another.
  • The term workflow is used in computer programming to capture and develop human-to-machine interaction.
  • • Processes: A process is a more specific notion than workflow and can apply to physical or biological processes, for instance. In the context of concepts surrounding work, a process may be distinguished from a workflow by the fact that it has well-defined inputs, outputs and purposes, while the notion of workflow may apply more generally to any systematic pattern of activity (such as all processes occurring in a machine shop).
     
    • Planning and scheduling: A plan is a description of the logically necessary, partially ordered set of activities required to accomplish a specific goal given certain starting conditions. A plan, when augmented with a schedule and resource allocation calculations, completely defines a particular instance of systematic processing in pursuit of a goal. A workflow may be viewed as an (often optimal or near-optimal) realization of the mechanisms required to execute the same plan repeatedly.
     
    • Flow control is a control concept applied to workflows, to distinguish from static control of buffers of material or orders, to mean instead a more dynamic control of flow speed and flow volumes in motion and in process. Such orientation to dynamic aspects is the basic foundation to prepare for more advanced job shop controls, such as just-in-time or just-in-sequence.
     
    • In-transit visibility is a monitoring concept that applies to transported material as well as to work in process or work in progress, i.e., workflows.
  • traditional publishing processes could be re-engineered and streamlined into digital processes in order to reduce lagtime, as well as substantial printing and shipping costs for delivering print copies of books and journals to warehouses and subscribers
  • The term electronic workflow was used to describe the publishing process, from online delivery of digital manuscripts to the posting of content on the web for online access.
  • The types of workflow of concern to Taylor and his contemporaries primarily involved mass and energy flows. These were studied and improved using time and motion studies. While the assembly line remains the most famous example of a workflow from this era, the early thinking around work was far more sophisticated than is commonly understood. The notion of flow was more than a sequential breakdown of processing. The common conceptual models of modern operations research, including flow shops, job shops and queuing systems,^[4] can be found in early forms in early 20th century industry.
  • The invention of the typewriter and the copier helped spread the study of the rational organization of labor from the manufacturing shop floor to the office. Filing systems and other sophisticated systems for managing physical information flows evolved. Two events provided a huge impetus to the development of formalized information workflows. First, the field of optimization theory matured and developed mathematical optimization techniques. Second, World War II and the Apollo program were unprecedented in their demands for the rational organization of work.
  • The classical industrial-style organization of work was critiqued as being both dehumanizing and suboptimal
  • The second critique had to do with quality.
  • A workflow management system is a computer system that manages and defines a series of tasks within an organization to produce a final outcome or outcomes. Workflow management systems allow the user to define different workflows for different types of jobs or processes
  • Workflow management systems also automate redundant tasks and ensure that uncompleted tasks are followed up.
  • Workflow management systems may control automated processes in addition to replacing paper work order transfers.
  • A workflow can usually be described using formal or informal flow diagramming techniques, showing directed flows between processing steps. Single processing steps or components of a workflow can basically be defined by three parameters:

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• 31 Jan 12
  

  Joseph Ferranola

  workflow_software

  • A workflow consists of a sequence of concatenated (connected) steps. Emphasis is on the flow paradigm, where each step follows the precedent without delay or gap and ends just before the subsequent step may begin. This concept is related to non overlapping tasks of single resources.
  • • Processes: A process is a more specific notion than workflow and can apply to physical or biological processes, for instance. In the context of concepts surrounding work, a process may be distinguished from a workflow by the fact that it has well-defined inputs, outputs and purposes, while the notion of workflow may apply more generally to any systematic pattern of activity (such as all processes occurring in a machine shop).
     
    • Planning and scheduling: A plan is a description of the logically necessary, partially ordered set of activities required to accomplish a specific goal given certain starting conditions. A plan, when augmented with a schedule and resource allocation calculations, completely defines a particular instance of systematic processing in pursuit of a goal. A workflow may be viewed as an (often optimal or near-optimal) realization of the mechanisms required to execute the same plan repeatedly.
     
    • Flow control is a control concept applied to workflows, to distinguish from static control of buffers of material or orders, to mean instead a more dynamic control of flow speed and flow volumes in motion and in process. Such orientation to dynamic aspects is the basic foundation to prepare for more advanced job shop controls, such as just-in-time or just-in-sequence.
     
    • In-transit visibility is a monitoring concept that applies to transported material as well as to work in process or work in progress, i.e., workflows.
• 15 Nov 11
  

  Marc-Alexandre Gagnon

  workflow

• 20 Oct 11
  

  Smith 14

  "The term workflow is used in computer programming to capture and develop human-to-machine interaction."
  Workflow- is the process of using computers to interact with humans, it helps people interact and work together more fluently.

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  What the word workflow means.

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  • Workflow concepts are closely related to other concepts used to describe organizational structure, such as silos, functions, teams, projects, policies and hierarchies. Workflows may be viewed as one primitive building block of organizations. The relationships among these concepts are described later in this entry.
• 18 Oct 11
  

  Kreslyn C

  "A workflow consists of a sequence of connected steps. It is a depiction of a sequence of operations, declared as work of a person, a group of persons,["

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  • A workflow is a model to represent real work for further assessment, e.g., for describing a reliably repeatable sequence of operations. More abstractly, a workflow is a pattern of activity enabled by a systematic organization of resources, defined roles and mass, energy and information flows, into a work process that can be documented and learned.^[3][4] Workflows are designed to achieve processing intents of some sort, such as physical transformation, service provision, or information processing.
  • The cultural impact of workflow optimization during this era can be understood through films such as Chaplin's classic Modern Times. These concepts did not stay confined to the shop floor. One magazine invited housewives to puzzle over the fastest way to toast three slices of bread on a one-side, two-slice grill. The book Cheaper by the Dozen introduced the emerging concepts to the context of family life.
• 14 Oct 11
  

  Jamie D

  "Workflow concepts are closely related to other concepts used to describe organizational structure, such as silos, functions, teams, projects, policies and hierarchies. Workflows may be viewed as one primitive building block of organizations. The relationships among these concepts are described later in this entry."

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• 27 Jun 11
  

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  Shows the meaning of what "workflow" means.

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• 27 Sep 10
  

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  A workflow consists of a sequence of connected steps. It is a depiction of a sequence of operations, declared as work of a person, a group of persons,[1]

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  Vicki Davis

  Definition of Workflow: "A workflow consists of a sequence of connected steps. It is a depiction of a sequence of operations, declared as work of a person, a group of persons,[1] an organization of staff, or one or more simple or complex mechanisms. Workflow may be seen as any abstraction of real work, segregated in workshare."

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  • A workflow consists of a sequence of connected steps. It is a depiction of a sequence of operations, declared as work of a person, a group of persons,^[1]
• 09 Sep 10
  

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• 29 Jul 10
  

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  workflow

  • The flow being described often refers to a document that is being transferred from one step to another.
• 31 Mar 10
  

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  Shaun Prince

  Wikipedia explains what workflow is, some related concepts, history, manufacturing, growth, quality, examples, features, theories, components and applications.

• 23 Feb 10
  

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• 01 Dec 09
  

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• 24 Nov 09
  

  Laqueka Jenkins

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• 13 Nov 09
  

  Heather Carrier

  This is a wikipedia site that defines work flow.

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• 05 Oct 09
  

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  when computers became interoperable, it paved the way for work flow software.

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• 01 Dec 08
  

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• 14 Oct 08
  

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  Wikipedia Workflow Encyclopedia

• 13 Oct 08
  

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  This is the definition of our topic and helps explain exactly what Workflow Software is.

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• 22 Jul 08
  

  Eric Wang
  • A process is a more specific notion than workflow, and can apply to physical or biological processes
  • a process may be distinguished from a workflow by the fact that it has well-defined inputs, outputs and purposes, while the notion of workflow may apply more generally to any systematic pattern of activity (such as all processes occurring in a machine shop)
  • The common conceptual models of modern operations research, including flow shops, job shops and queuing systems^[6] can be found in evolved forms in early 20th century industry.

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• 09 Jul 08
  

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• 28 Apr 08
  

  Cong Vo Chi

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• 30 Nov 07
  

  Davide Cesaroni

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• 30 Jun 07
  

  Mike Oryszak

  Workflow Overview

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• 09 Oct 06
  

  Travis B Hartwell

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• 03 Oct 06
  

  Jiri Ludvicek

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  François Charoy

  This presentation of workflow is a bit short at this time

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