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- Title
- Automating handover in dynamic workflow environments
- Author(s)
- Liu, Chengfei; Orlowska, Maria E.; Li, Hui
- Abstract
- Workflow technology has been widely used in business process modelling, automation and reengineering. In order to meet the fast-changing business requirements, to remain competitive in the market, an enterprise may constantly refine the workflow models of its business processes. The most challenging issue in evolution of a workflow model is the handover of its running instances from the old specification to the new specification. Such a handover depends on the semantics of a workflow model as well as the execution information of its running instances. A handover policy, therefore, needs to be specified for this purpose. In this paper, we propose a simple yet effective handover policy specification language. Using this language, a designer can easily specify a handover policy which reflect exactly what a workflow administrator needs to react to when a workflow model evolves. Criteria for the correct specification of handover policies are also addressed. Finally, a framework for automating handover of workflow instances is presented.
- Publication type
- Conference paper
- Source
- Lecture notes in computer science: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE '98), Pisa, Italy, 08-12 June 1998 / Barbara Pernici and Costantino Thanos (eds.), Vol. 1413, pp. 159-171
- Publication year
- 1998
- Keyword(s)
- Business process modelling; Handover policy specification; Workflow modelling
- Publisher
- Springer
- ISSN
- 0302-9743 (series ISSN)
- ISBN
- 9783540645566, 354064556X
- Publisher URL
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BFb0054224
- Copyright
- Copyright © 1998 Springer-Verlag. The accepted manuscript is reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. The definitive version of the publication is available at www.springer.com.
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