Reichert, Manfred and Rinderle, Stefanie and Dadam, Peter (2003) On the Common Support of Workflow Type and Instance Changes under Correctness Constraints. In: Proc. 11th Int'l Conf. Cooperative Information Systems (CooplS '03), Catania, Italy.
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Abstract
The capability to rapidly adapt in-progress workflows (WF)
is an essential requirement for any workflow system. Adaptations may concern single WF instances or a WF type as a whole. Especially for long-running business processes it is indispensable to propagate WF type changes to in-progress WF instances as well. Very challenging in this context is to correctly adapt a (potentially large) collection of WF
instances, which may be in different states and to which various ad-hoc changes may have been previously applied. This paper presents a generic framework for the common support of both WF type and WF instance changes. We establish fundamental correctness principles, position formal theorems, and show how WF instances can be automatically and efficiently migrated to a modified WF schema. The adequate treatment of conflicting WF type and WF instance changes adds to the overall completeness of our approach. By offering more flexibility and adaptability the so promising WF technology will finally deliver.
Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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Subjects: | DBIS Research > Publications |
Divisions: | Faculty of Engineering, Electronics and Computer Science > Institute of Databases and Informations Systems > DBIS Research and Teaching > DBIS Research > Publications |
Depositing User: | Eva Mader |
Date Deposited: | 17 Apr 2008 13:09 |
Last Modified: | 14 Oct 2011 10:24 |
URI: | http://dbis.eprints.uni-ulm.de/id/eprint/184 |