@article {156,
	title = {Service-oriented workflow},
	journal = {Journal of Digital Information Management},
	volume = {6},
	year = {2008},
	note = {Cited By (since 1996):1Export Date: 10 July 2014},
	month = {2008},
	pages = {118 - 127},
	abstract = {The advantages of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have forced many enterprises to reconsider the way their business processes are undertaken. Among various Information Technologies, the Workflow Management System greatly improves the efficiency of business processes. The challenge for Workflow Systems relies on their ability to align ICT and the processes of production and business. They should support the strategic policy of the enterprise and quickly respond to on-demand business and opportunities. Unfortunately, they suffer from some lacks and limitations due to their monolithic architectures. Most Workflow Management Systems are dependent on technology platforms and partially conform to standards. We attempt throughout the present paper to propose the next generation of Workflow architectures. We conceive workflow systems as a set of services, which are generic and platform-independent. Services are self-contained and fully-customized. Workflow services are assembled from computational components (i.e. web services), which are loosely coupled. The new architecture is split into layers to guarantee a high level of abstraction, each of which is managed by a crucial Web Service known as the orchestrator service.},
	keywords = {Design tools and techniques, Integrated environment, Interoperability, Software architectures, Standards, Workflow management},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-56849115934\&partnerID=40\&md5=00c78de5d2932b1fff3748d5f1636974},
	author = {Badr, Y.}
}
@article {128,
	title = {Special issue on digital information management},
	journal = {Journal of Digital Information Management},
	volume = {6},
	year = {2008},
	note = {Export Date: 10 July 2014},
	month = {2008},
	pages = {281 - 284},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-70349983276\&partnerID=40\&md5=3307d00e9cbb24d7342a1b1218e9ac20},
	author = {Badr, Y. and Chbeir, R.}
}
@article {40,
	title = {Extracting information from coarser-grained data in XML documents},
	journal = {Journal of Digital Information Management},
	volume = {4},
	year = {2006},
	note = {Export Date: 10 July 2014},
	month = {2006},
	pages = {117 - 123},
	abstract = {XML is fast emerging as the dominant standard for representing data in the applications centric documents. While there has been a great deal of works recently proposing the extraction of relevant data of natural langujge texts, Most of the underlying works confront with the irregular structure hidden in the text. To this end, a large spectrum of wrappers has been conceived lot- web pages. Unfortunately, they cannot deal with semi-structured data and cannot still take into consideration the natural language processing. In this paper, we present a specification language to write expressive and easy extraction patterns. The specification relies on rectular expression fashion in order to write patterns by non expert users. In addition, we introduce the Xtractor wrapper for coarser-grained data (i.e. paragraphs). The Xtractor hinges on linguistic parsing. of paragraphs and applies technical and natural language dictionaries. Then it employs the extraction patterns against the pre-processed paragraphs in order to locate relevant data. The key idea of our approach consists of translating the extraction patterns to Finite State Transducers (FST) and even using the FST to build the domain specific dictionaries.},
	keywords = {Data exchange, Finite state transducers, XML database, Xtractor wrapper},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-44649098973\&partnerID=40\&md5=e3df331dc7e1172e6d94226eecc4f744},
	author = {Badr, Y.}
}
