Conference proceeding
Context-Sensitive Adaptation of Workflows
ESEC-FSE DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM 2009
01 Jan 2009
Abstract
In many domains such as health care or catastrophe management workflows are used to coordinate complex activities. Context-awareness plays an important role to dynamically react on new situations in such scenarios. Changes in context often require structural changes of affected workflows. In current approaches of adaptive Workflow Management Systems (WfMS) context-sensitive adaptation at runtime of the workflow mostly has to be done manually. In this paper an approach for the context-sensitive adaptation of workflows as runtime is proposed. We introduce an adaptation layer which automatically calculates and semiautomatically executes the necessary workflow adaptations. It interacts with a context service to subscribe to context changes and an adaptive WfMS to implement the workflow adaptation. With this system support reaction and adaptation times and therewith the costs for workflow adaptation can be significantly decreased compared to the manual approaches. In addition, it is possible to trace which context information caused which adaptation and thus, reuse of adaptation decisions is possible.
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Details
- Title
- Context-Sensitive Adaptation of Workflows
- Creators
- Christian Sell - SAP Research CEC Dresden, Dresden, GermanyThomas Springer - Technische Universität DresdenACM
- Publication Details
- ESEC-FSE DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM 2009
- Publisher
- Assoc Computing Machinery
- Number of pages
- 4
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000282709900001
- Other Identifier
- 991020100073704721
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