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Flexibility for Distributed Workflows

Flexibility for Distributed Workflows
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Author(s): Manfred Reichert (University of Ulm, Germany), Thomas Bauer (Daimler AG, Germany)and Peter Dadam (University of Ulm, Germany)
Copyright: 2010
Pages: 35
Source title: Handbook of Research on Complex Dynamic Process Management: Techniques for Adaptability in Turbulent Environments
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Minhong Wang (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)and Zhaohao Sun (University Of Ballarat, Australia )
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-669-3.ch006

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Abstract

This chapter shows how flexibility can be realized for distributed workflows. The capability to dynamically adapt workflow instances during runtime (e.g., to add, delete or move activities) constitutes a fundamental challenge for any workflow management system (WfMS). While there has been significant research on ad-hoc workflow changes and on related correctness issues, there exists only little work on how to provide respective runtime flexibility in an enterprise-wide context as well. Here, scalability at the presence of high loads constitutes an essential requirement, often necessitating distributed (i.e., piecewise) control of a workflow instance by different workflow servers, which should be as independent from each other as possible. This chapter presents advanced concepts and techniques for enabling adhoc workflow changes in a distributed WfMS as well. Our focus is on minimizing the communication costs among workflow servers, while ensuring a correct execution behavior as well as correctness of ad-hoc workflow changes at any time.

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