QUALITY OF SERVICE IN FLEXIBLE WORKFLOWS THROUGH PROCESS CONSTRAINTS

Shazia Sadiq, Maria Orlowska, Joe Lin, Wasim Sadiq

2005

Abstract

Workflow technology has delivered effectively for a large class of business processes, providing the requisite control and monitoring functions. At the same time, this technology has been the target of much criticism due to its limited ability to cope with dynamically changing business conditions which require business processes to be adapted frequently, and/or its limited ability to model business processes which cannot be entirely predefined. Requirements indicate the need for generic solutions where a balance between process control and flexibility may be achieved. In this paper we present a framework that allows the workflow to execute on the basis of a partially specified model where the full specification of the model is made at runtime, and may be unique to each instance. This framework is based on the notion of process constraints. Where as process constraints may be specified for any aspect of the workflow, such as structural, temporal, etc. our focus in this paper is on a constraint which allows dynamic selection of activities for inclusion in a given instance. We call these cardinality constraints, and this paper will discuss their specification and validation requirements.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Sadiq S., Orlowska M., Lin J. and Sadiq W. (2005). QUALITY OF SERVICE IN FLEXIBLE WORKFLOWS THROUGH PROCESS CONSTRAINTS . In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS, ISBN 972-8865-19-8, pages 29-37. DOI: 10.5220/0002526900290037

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis05,
author={Shazia Sadiq and Maria Orlowska and Joe Lin and Wasim Sadiq},
title={QUALITY OF SERVICE IN FLEXIBLE WORKFLOWS THROUGH PROCESS CONSTRAINTS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,},
year={2005},
pages={29-37},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002526900290037},
isbn={972-8865-19-8},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,
TI - QUALITY OF SERVICE IN FLEXIBLE WORKFLOWS THROUGH PROCESS CONSTRAINTS
SN - 972-8865-19-8
AU - Sadiq S.
AU - Orlowska M.
AU - Lin J.
AU - Sadiq W.
PY - 2005
SP - 29
EP - 37
DO - 10.5220/0002526900290037