Abstract
The performing process of workflows consists of the performance of activities and transitions between activities. To perform workflows in pervasive environments needs to take account of the context information which affects both the performance way of activities and the transition control between activities. Accordingly, based on definitions of activity-context and transition-context, this paper proposes a dual-context based workflow performance framework applied in pervasive environments. Under such a framework, a context specifying method is presented for the workflow modeling, where activity-context and transition-context could be represented through simple and composite context. Moreover, the principles of performing a workflow definition with context specifications are provided for the process of context capture, mapping, and response.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Chakraborty, D., Lei, H.: Pervasive Enablement of Business Processes. In: Proc. of 2nd IEEE Annual Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, pp. 87–97 (2004)
Montagut, F., Molva, R.: The Pervasive Workflow: A Decentralized Workflow System Supporting Long-Running Transactions. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetic-Part C: Applications and Reviews 38(3), 319–332 (2008)
Han, J., Cho, Y.Y., Kim, E.H., Choi, J.: A Ubiquitous Workflow Service Framework. In: Gavrilova, M.L., Gervasi, O., Kumar, V., Tan, C.J.K., Taniar, D., Laganá, A., Mun, Y., Choo, H. (eds.) ICCSA 2006. LNCS, vol. 3983, pp. 30–39. Springer, Heidelberg (2006)
Yu, J.Q., Reddy, Y.V.R., Bharadwaj, V., Reddy, S., Kankanahalli, S.: Workflow-Centric Distributed Collaboration in Heterogeneous Computing Environments. In: Shen, W.-m., Chao, K.-M., Lin, Z., Barthès, J.-P.A., James, A. (eds.) CSCWD 2005. LNCS, vol. 3865, pp. 504–515. Springer, Heidelberg (2006)
Van der Aalst, W.M.P.: The application of Petri Nets to workflow management. In. J. Circuits Syst. Comput. 8(1), 21–66 (1998)
Liu, X.P., Dou, W.C., Chen, J.J., Fan, S.K., Cheung, S.C., Cai, S.J.: On Design, Verification, and Dynamic Modification of the Problem-Based Scientific Workflow Model. Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory 15(9), 1068–1088 (2007)
Sadiq, S.W., Orlowska, M.E., Sadiq, W.: Specification and Validation of Process Constraints for Flexible Workflows. Information Systems 30(5), 349–378 (2005)
Bastos, R.M., Ruiz, D.D.A.: Extending UML activity diagram for workflow modeling in production systems. In: Proc. of the 35th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, pp. 3786–3795 (2002)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2009 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Liu, X., Dou, W., Chen, J. (2009). The Dual-Context Based Workflow Performance in Pervasive Environments. In: Ślęzak, D., et al. U- and E-Service, Science and Technology. UNESST 2009. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 62. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10580-7_10
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10580-7_10
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-642-10579-1
Online ISBN: 978-3-642-10580-7
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)