Common Workflow Service: A Standards-Based Process Management System

As mission operations grow in scale and complexity, there is a prevailing need for automating operational processes to increase efficiency, mitigate risks, and reduce operational costs. The need for automating operational processes has produced a few disparate automation systems within the Advanced Multi Mission Operations System (AMMOS). Without a common solution for process management and automation, each AMMOS subsystem that requires a workflow capability will need to develop its own expertise in the workflow domain as independent systems are developed. This can lead to many incompatible implementations that functionally do similar things. The Common Workflow Service (CWS) attempts to address this issue to avoid independent ad hoc workflow implementations.