Enterprise-Wide and Cross-Enterprise Workflow Management: Challenges and Research Issues for Adaptive Workflows

Workshop at Informatik'99

计算机科学;社会科学（总论）

Manfred Reichert ; Thomas Bauer ; Peter Dadam

Others  :  http://CEUR-WS.org/Vol-24/rbd99.pdf
PID  :  12692

来源: CEUR

【 摘 要 】

The paper discusses important challenges and research issues for adaptive workflow management systems (WfMS), especially if they shall be applied to enterprise-wide applications. It shows that an adaptive WfMS must provide support for different kinds of (dynamic) workflow (WF) changes in order to be applicable to a broader spectrum of processes. In this context, both, requirements for WF schema evolution and issues related to ad-hoc changes of individual WF instances are discussed. A particulary interesting aspect, which is described in more detail, is how to combine such dynamic changes with a distributed execution of workflows, taking into account performance issues. For enterprise-wide and cross-enterprise workflows, the distributed execution of workflows may be attractive due to several reasons.