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BibliographyWieland, Matthias; Kaczmarczyk, Peter; Nicklas, Daniela: Context Integration for Smart Workflows.
In: Proceedings of the Sixth Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications.
University of Stuttgart : Collaborative Research Center SFB 627 (Nexus: World Models for Mobile Context-Based Systems).
pp. 239-242, english.
Hong Kong: IEEE computer society, March 17, 2008.
ISBN: 0-7695-3113-X.
Article in Proceedings (Conference Paper).
CR-SchemaH.4 (Information Systems Applications)
Abstract

The usage of workflow technology to model and execute business processes is widespread in many enterprises and within the software industry. With the growing maturity of sensors, wireless communication, and distributed computing environments, we can enhance this approach to enable smart workflows, which are business processes crossing the boundary to the physical world. Applications for such processes can be found in many application domains, like logistics or in smart factory environments. To realize smart workflows, workflow engines can be coupled with existing context provisioning systems. However, there is a gap between the rather lowlevel provisioning of context (e.g., sensor data and stock information) and the concepts needed in smart workflows (e.g., ”is a spare tool available?”). The main contribution of this paper is to bridge this gap: we show how integration processes can be used to provide context information at different semantical levels for smart workflows.

CopyrightIEEE computer society
Department(s)University of Stuttgart, Institute of Architecture of Application Systems
Project(s)SFB-627, E1 (University of Stuttgart, Institute of Architecture of Application Systems)
Entry dateApril 8, 2008
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