Supporting Mobile Workflow with Active Entities

Workflow modeling is well suited for scenarios where many entities work collaboratively towards a common goal, and it is vastly used to model complex business processes. Besides, the workflow model can be applied to a wide variety of domains. This paper shows how to use workflows to model collaborat...

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Main Authors: Neyem, A., Franco, D., Ochoa, S.F., Pino, J.A.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Ad-hoc Collaboration
Application software
Collaborative work
Computer architecture
Computer science
Decentralized Workflow
International collaboration
Mobile ad hoc networks
Mobile Business
Mobile computing
Mobile Workflow
Service oriented architecture
Software architecture
Web services
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Summary:Workflow modeling is well suited for scenarios where many entities work collaboratively towards a common goal, and it is vastly used to model complex business processes. Besides, the workflow model can be applied to a wide variety of domains. This paper shows how to use workflows to model collaboration in ad-hoc mobile environments. Particularly, it introduces the concept of "active entity", which is a network-isolated subcomponent of a workflow process. It is shown how active entities overcome the challenges of an ad-hoc mobile environment. The support required for this workflow extension in terms of lightweight software architecture for mobile device is also described.
DOI:10.1109/CSCWD.2007.4281538