One: Introduction To The WIDE Project -- 1 Workflow Management and Database Technology -- 2 The WIDE Approach to Workflow Management -- Two: The WIDE Workflow Model -- 3 Conceptual Workflow Model -- 4 Workflow Design Methodology -- Three: The WIDE Workflow System -- 5 Data Support -- 6 Transaction Support -- 7 Active Rule Support -- 8 Workflow Support -- Four: WIDE Applications -- 9 Medical Insurance Application -- 10 Short-Stay Surgery -- Concluding Remarks -- APPENDICES -- A Wide Wpdl -- A.1 Introduction -- A.2 The WPDL grammar: basic structures -- A.2.1 Grammar and language constructs -- A.3 WIDE WPDL: process and entities definitions -- A.3.1 Workflow entities -- A.3.2 Transition definition -- A.2.3 Chimera exceptions definition -- B Details Global Travel International -- B.1 Introduction -- B.2 Process model definition -- B.3 Information model definition -- C Details Medical Insurance Application -- C.1 Introduction -- C.2 Information model definition -- C.3 Workflow definition -- D Details Short-Stay Surgery Application -- D.1 Introduction -- D.2 Triggers -- D.3 Business transactions -- D.4 Information models -- D.5 Workflow definition -- E WIDE Publications -- E.1 Conference papers -- E.2 Journal papers -- E.3 Magazine papers -- E.4 Technical reports -- E.5 WIDE newsletters.