Modelo para el diseño de sistemas gestores de workflows con funcionalidades colaborativas, cloud y móviles
- Autores: E. Castelán Maldonado
- Directores de la Tesis: Joaquín Fernández Sánchez (dir. tes.), Miguel Brigos Hermida (dir. tes.)
- Lectura: En la Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) ( España ) en 2014
- Idioma: español
- Tribunal Calificador de la Tesis: Jordi Torner Ribe (presid.), Mónica Sampieri Bulbarela (secret.), María Teresa Rojas Rajs (voc.)
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- Tesis en acceso abierto en: TDX
- Resumen
This research was developed in the context of WFMS (Workflow Management Systems), mobile applications, cloud computing, and collaborative systems. Currently the design of WFMS is based on the reference model proposed by the WfMC (Workflow Management Coalition). The problem that exists today in the design and development of WfMS is that the reference model proposed by the WfMC was designed many years before the rise of mobile technologies, cloud computing and collaborative systems. It is important to create a new model for the design of WfMS taking in to account the new technological features and functionalities offered by mobile devices, collaborative and cloud computing services along with new paradigms of collaboration that can occur when using these technological solutions. This research has the general objective of obtain a model for the design of WfMS with Collaborative, Cloud and Mobile functionalities. For the development of this research we use the design - science research paradigm used in the research field of information systems. Is fully oriented to the solution of problems and has as a main goal the development and evaluation of artifacts that serve for a practical purpose, these artifacts must be completely relevant and novel in its application environment. The steps that were undertaken in order to carry out this research with the design - science methodology were: 1) A problem in the field of WfMS was identified. 2) The features the artifact should have in order to solve the problem were proposed, and also how the artifact would be represented in this case as a model. 3) The design processes that should be used to build the device were identified and proposed. 4) The artifact and the design process were theoretically justified with methodologies and models widely accepted in the field of information systems. 5) During the design cycle a model for evaluating software architectures was applied. 6) In order to introduce the artifact in the field of application we have carried out an implementation of the model resulting in a WfMS mobile application with collaborative, cloud and mobile functionalities. We have conducted a Delphi study in order to assess the functionalities of the new artifact and demonstrate its utility in its field of application. 7) The result of this research adds to the knowledge base a new model for the design and development of WfMS with collaborative, cloud and mobile functionalities. An article with the results of this research was published and presented to the scientific community. 8) The main objective and all the objectives in this research have been satisfactorily completed, this research has proved that the designed artifact solves the problem proposed in this research and that the artifact provides utility in the field of WfMS. This research propose a new methodology for conducting a Delphi study using the WfMS mobile application that was developed in this research. Each one of the Delphi questionnaires are made through a Wokflow and the use of cloud collaborative tools in order to store both the questionnaires as well as the results of the evaluation of the questionnaires. This research makes the following contributions: a model for the design of WfMS with collaborative, cloud and mobile functionalities. A Concrete Architecture as a result of implementing the new model. A Software Architecture for the development of WfMS as a result of implementing the Concrete Architecture. A WfMS mobile application for the iOS platform as a result of the implementation of the software architecture. A methodology for conducting a Delphi study using a WfMS mobile application with cloud collaborative tools.
