Dynamic change within workflow systems
COCS '95 Proceedings of conference on Organizational computing systems
Adept_flex—Supporting Dynamic Changes of Workflows Without Losing Control
Journal of Intelligent Information Systems - Special issue on workflow management systems
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Information Systems Frontiers
ER '96 Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling
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COOPIS '99 Proceedings of the Fourth IECIS International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems
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HICSS '01 Proceedings of the 34th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences ( HICSS-34)-Volume 7 - Volume 7
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Distributed and Parallel Databases
Correctness criteria for dynamic changes in workflow systems: a survey
Data & Knowledge Engineering - Special issue: Advances in business process management
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Journal of Systems and Software
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International Journal of Web and Grid Services
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EuroPar'10 Proceedings of the 16th international Euro-Par conference on Parallel processing: Part I
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ICCSA'11 Proceedings of the 2011 international conference on Computational science and Its applications - Volume Part V
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APWeb'12 Proceedings of the 14th Asia-Pacific international conference on Web Technologies and Applications
Semantic-based transaction model for web service
Information Systems Frontiers
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Dynamic adaptability has become one of the major research topics in the area of workflow management system. When adjusting a workflow process to some structural changes, there is a potential problem: the new workflow may contain errors, such as deadlock, inconsistency and even loss of instance. This paper primary addresses the issues related to workflow structural changes. It firstly defines a class of structural change called compatible change. This kind of change can be applied to the workflow process, without causing any structural errors or behavioral inconsistencies. Secondly, an algorithm is put forward to calculate the minimal region affected by the changes. Furthermore, it proves that the change regions can be used to check the compatibility of workflow changes. This approach is applicable and efficient in terms of time and space for large-scale and complex systems. Lastly, this paper discusses the problem to decide whether an active workflow instance can be smoothly evolved to the new workflow, and provides a sufficient condition for valid migration. In the end, an example is given to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed concepts and method.