Title :
Supporting Mobile Business Workflow with Commune
Author :
Davis, John ; Sow, Daby ; Bourges-Waldegg, Daniela ; Guo, Chang Jie ; Hoertnag, C. ; Stolze, Markus ; Eagle, Brian White ; Yin, Ying
Author_Institution :
IBM Research
Abstract :
We propose Commune, a workflow management system that supports a mobile workforce. We introduce the "mini-workflow," a network-isolated subcomponent of a business workflow process. Miniworkflows enable subsets of business workflow to be off-loaded into mobile client environments by leveraging web services. We describe how miniworkflows overcome the challenges of intermittent connectivity and we describe our BPEL-based implementation.
Keywords :
Accidents; Business; Computer architecture; Insurance; Layout; Packaging; Routing; Service oriented architecture; Web services; Workflow management software;
Conference_Titel :
Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, 2006. WMCSA '06. Proceedings. 7th IEEE Workshop on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2439-7
DOI :
10.1109/WMCSA.2006.27
