Formal foundation and conceptual design of dynamic adaptations in a workflow management system

Author

Weske, Mathias

Author_Institution

Westfalischen Wilhelms-Univ., Munster, Germany

fYear

2001

fDate

6-6 Jan. 2001

Abstract

While the different aspects of flexible workflow management are still under discussion, the ability to adapt the structure of running workflow instances to modified workflow schemas is an important property of a flexible workflow management system. In this paper, we present the formal foundation and conceptual design of dynamic adaptations in an object-oriented workflow management system. We describe in some detail how workflow schemas are represented. The system architecture, based on the CORBA object-oriented middleware, is overviewed, and the implementation of dynamic adaptations is sketched. An example introduces the graphical user interface of the system and shows a dynamic adaptation.

Keywords

adaptive systems; client-server systems; distributed object management; software architecture; systems analysis; workflow management software; CORBA object-oriented middleware; conceptual design; dynamic adaptations; flexible workflow management system; graphical user interface; modified workflow schemas; running workflow instance structure adaptation; system architecture; Business; Flow graphs; Middleware; Object oriented modeling; Process control; Workflow management software;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Sciences, 2001. Proceedings of the 34th Annual Hawaii International Conference on

Conference_Location

Maui, HI, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0981-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HICSS.2001.927082

Filename

927082