Worklets: A Service-Oriented Implementation of Dynamic Flexibility in Workflows

Adams, Michael J. and ter Hofstede, Arthur H.M. and Edmond, David and van der Aalst, Wil M.P. (2006) Worklets: A Service-Oriented Implementation of Dynamic Flexibility in Workflows. In Meersman, R. and Tari, Z., Eds. Proceedings the 14th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS'06) LNCS 4275, pages pp. 291-308, Montpellier, France.

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Abstract

This paper presents the realisation, using a Service Oriented Architecture, of an approach for dynamic flexibility and evolution in workflows through the support of flexible work practices, based not on proprietary frameworks, but on accepted ideas of how people actually work. A set of principles have been derived from a sound theoretical base and applied to the development of worklets, an extensible repertoire of self-contained sub-processes aligned to each task, from which a dynamic runtime selection is made depending on the context of the particular work instance.

Item Type:	Conference Paper
Status:	Published
Keywords:	worklet, workflow, Activity Theory, Ripple-Down Rules, flexibility
Subjects:	280000 Information, Computing and Communication Sciences > 280100 Information Systems > 280199 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
ID Code:	7985
Deposited By:	Adams, Michael
Deposited On:	06 June 2007
Alternative Locations:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11914853
Copyright Owner:	Copyright 2006 Springer
Copyright Statement:	This is the author-version of the work. Conference proceedings published, by Springer Verlag, will be available via SpringerLink. http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/ Lecture Notes in Computer Science