Process Management Systems (PMSs, a.k.a. Workflow Management Systems - WfMSs) are currently more and more used as a supporting tool to coordinate the enactment of processes. In real world scenarios, the environment may change in unexpected ways so as to prevent a process from being successfully carried out. In order to cope with these anomalous situations, a PMS should automatically adapt the process without completely replacing it. In this paper, we propose a general approach and a conceptual architecture to automatic adaptation, based on the concept of declarative modeling of processes and the use of continuous planning techniques. We show the feasibility of the proposed approach by discussing its deployment on top of YAWL, one of the most famous research prototypes of PMSs, in order to demonstrate the modularity and nice integrability with existing models and techniques. A running example shows the practical applicability of the approach.

Featuring Automatic Adaptivity through Workflow Enactment and Planning / Marrella, Andrea; Mecella, Massimo; Russo, Alessandro. - (2011), pp. 372-381. (Intervento presentato al convegno 7th International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing (CollaborateCom 2011) tenutosi a Orlando, Florida, US nel 15-18 October 2011) [10.4108/icst.collaboratecom.2011.247096].

Featuring Automatic Adaptivity through Workflow Enactment and Planning

MARRELLA, ANDREA
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Mecella, Massimo;Russo, Alessandro
2011

Abstract

Process Management Systems (PMSs, a.k.a. Workflow Management Systems - WfMSs) are currently more and more used as a supporting tool to coordinate the enactment of processes. In real world scenarios, the environment may change in unexpected ways so as to prevent a process from being successfully carried out. In order to cope with these anomalous situations, a PMS should automatically adapt the process without completely replacing it. In this paper, we propose a general approach and a conceptual architecture to automatic adaptation, based on the concept of declarative modeling of processes and the use of continuous planning techniques. We show the feasibility of the proposed approach by discussing its deployment on top of YAWL, one of the most famous research prototypes of PMSs, in order to demonstrate the modularity and nice integrability with existing models and techniques. A running example shows the practical applicability of the approach.
2011
7th International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing (CollaborateCom 2011)
Continuous Planning; Process Adaptivity; Process Management Systems; YAWL
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Featuring Automatic Adaptivity through Workflow Enactment and Planning / Marrella, Andrea; Mecella, Massimo; Russo, Alessandro. - (2011), pp. 372-381. (Intervento presentato al convegno 7th International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing (CollaborateCom 2011) tenutosi a Orlando, Florida, US nel 15-18 October 2011) [10.4108/icst.collaboratecom.2011.247096].
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