Article in Proceedings INPROC-2007-18

BibliographyWieland, Matthias; Kopp, Oliver; Nicklas, Daniela; Leymann, Frank: Towards Context-Aware Workflows.
In: Pernici, Barbara (ed.); Gulla, Jon Atle (ed.): CAiSE´07 Proceedings of the Workshops and Doctoral Consortium Vol.2, Trondheim, Norway, June 11-15th, 2007.
University of Stuttgart : Collaborative Research Center SFB 627 (Nexus: World Models for Mobile Context-Based Systems).
pp. 577-591, english.
Tapir Acasemic Press, June 11, 2007.
ISBN: 978-82-519-2246-3.
Article in Proceedings (Workshop Paper).
CR-SchemaH.4.1 (Office Automation)
Keywordsworkflow systems; context-aware systems; ubiquitous systems; workflow modeling; development of context-aware applications; BPEL; Nexus
Abstract

Context-aware applications adapt their behavior based on changes of the physical world, which is often obtained with a huge amount of sensors. Thus, the development of such applications is cumbersome, in particular the implementation of their often complex control flow. To ease the development of context-aware applications we present the concept of context-aware workflows. Thereafter we present an implementation of these concepts based on a standard workflow language. Context-aware workflows are not only interesting for the development of context-aware applications, but also enable workflow technology to be applied in new domains that are process oriented and yet not supported by workflow systems like production processes in the manufacturing industry. The concept of context-aware workflows is a first approach that enables modeling and execution of technical production processes with workflow systems normally used for business processes.

ContactMatthias Wieland wielanms@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de
Department(s)University of Stuttgart, Institute of Architecture of Application Systems
University of Stuttgart, Institute of Parallel and Distributed Systems, Applications of Parallel and Distributed Systems
Project(s)SFB-627, E1 (University of Stuttgart, Institute of Architecture of Application Systems)
SFB-627, B1 (University of Stuttgart, Institute of Parallel and Distributed Systems, Applications of Parallel and Distributed Systems)
Entry dateJune 1, 2007