A reflective infrastructure for workflow adaptability

David Edmond, Arthur H.M. ter Hofstede
2000 Data & Knowledge Engineering  
We present a¯exible framework that enables work¯ow systems to adapt to changing conditions. The model is designed to reveal key aspects of the tasks involved in representing and enacting business processes. These fundamental characteristics are identi®ed as state, behaviour, distribution, coordination and enactment. By isolating such core concepts in a way that allows them to be varied, we open up the general process of task coordination and execution, allowing for extensions in a planned way.
more » ... y suitable manipulation of each of these aspects, at the appropriate level, a work¯ow system may be extensively modi®ed in a way that minimises the eect of such change upon other aspects of the system. Ó
doi:10.1016/s0169-023x(00)00018-5 fatcat:3o657limyzeebkrenhvsjjy67e