Towards evolutionary and adaptive workflow systems-infrastructure support based on Higher-Order Object Nets and CORBA
- 1 January 1997
- conference paper
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Abstract
Issues of workflow systems adaptability and evolution capability are discussed from two perspectives, namely design and evolution of workflow systems from a continuous software engineering perspective as well as redesign and runtime on-the-fly modifications of workflow models from an application perspective. Special attention is paid to a suitable infrastructure support for designing more configurable and adaptive workflow systems. A new workflow language, called Higher-Order Object Nets (HOON), is introduced. The intended uses of HOON are, on one side, to directly describe real-world business processes, and on the other side, to serve as a build-time composition model and a run-time overall control skeleton of the underlying software components that support individual business activities. On the basis of HOON and CORBA, a layered, framework-based and generic system architecture is presented.Keywords
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