TASKA: a modular and easily extendable system for repeatable workflows

• Autor(a) principal: Ribeiro, Ricardo Filipe Gonçalves
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10773/17925
• topic: Sistemas de informação para a gestão; Análise de tarefas; Serviços web; Fluxo de trabalho - Optimização; Gestão do tempo

Time is one of the most important resources in the world. Daily tasks consumes time, and much of the human beings efforts are dedicated to improve the efficiency of repetitive processes of our daily life. While many of the efforts has been developed already, there are still a gap in the workflow management processes, mainly due to collaborative work, high complexity requirements and missing a modern and actual user experience through the new web components. This work describes a web solution for workflow management, named “Taska” that can be used in many areas of process optimization. The work presented in this thesis intends to be a hybrid system that covers not only the workflow management processes, but also keep to manage, store and share the documentation associated with processes and tasks. The system was designed with a modular and extensible structure and can be used as a Software-as-a- Service platform. In one hand, all the system can be used by external applications to management complex workflows and keep recorded their state machines, processes and tasks, with capability to execute the state machines and compute the results. One another hand, we also present a modern web frontend application that is user-friendly and allow users to create complex workflows graphically and with collaborative features to perform the workflow with different partners/collaborators. Taska was developed to fulfil the gaps in a European project EMIF, and has been used in a pilot study by translational researchers, and database owners to find facilitate their work in custom health studies in disperse databases around the world.