A Chemical Model for Dynamic Workflow Coordination

Author

Caeiro, Manuel ; Németh, Zsolt ; Priol, Thierry

Author_Institution

E.T.S.E. Telecomun., Univ. of Vigo, Vigo, Spain

fYear

2011

fDate

9-11 Feb. 2011

Firstpage

215

Lastpage

222

Abstract

This paper investigates a chemical workflow enactment model that is intended to coordinate workflows of large set of activities on a large number of resources in a self-evolving nature, based on a chemical analogy. The concept of chemical workflow engine is introduced for a concurrent, self-coordinating enactment exploiting as much parallelism as inherently present. The concept is aimed at supporting a generalized workflow language without any restrictions, modeling most workflow patterns, separating data and control flow, supporting dynamic changes by multiple versions and instances. The paper presents the notion and model of the chemical based coordination.

Keywords

chemical engineering computing; workflow management software; chemical analogy; chemical based coordination; chemical workflow enactment model; chemical workflow engine; dynamic workflow; generalized workflow language; self-evolving nature; Adaptation model; Chemical elements; Chemicals; Computational modeling; Connectors; Engines; Random access memory; dynamic workflow; formal model; nature inspired computing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing (PDP), 2011 19th Euromicro International Conference on

Conference_Location

Ayia Napa

ISSN

1066-6192

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9682-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PDP.2011.93

Filename

5739004