Towards Distributed Collaborative Workflow Management for Mobile Devices [chapter]

Anna Kocurova, Samia Oussena, Peter Komisarczuk, Tony Clark, Dean Kramer
2012 Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing  
Using mobile devices enhances overall collaboration and communication between team workers. Co-workers can collaborate and share content regardless of their location. Workflow management is a widely accepted technology that supports collaboration; however, existing workflow approaches provide only a limited support for content management. Moreover, constantly changing collaborators' contexts and needs demand more adaptable and flexible workflows. The aim of this paper is to examine how
more » ... tive workflows can be adapted for mobile devices, be capable of dealing with current collaborators' context and support content manipulation. As a result, a conceptual reference framework for the definition, management and execution of mobile context-aware content-centric workflows is introduced.
doi:10.1007/978-3-642-34044-4_1 fatcat:kgrnsofrlfefdnwdberyomkmum