Workflow management in grid era: from process-driven paradigm to a goal-driven one

Authors:
Jinlei Jiang;Shaohua Zhang;Johann Schlichter;Guangwen Yang
Affiliations:
Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology and Institut fuer Informatik, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Garching, Germany;Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China;Institut fuer Informatik, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Garching, Germany;Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology and Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Venue:
OTM'07 Proceedings of the 2007 OTM confederated international conference on On the move to meaningful internet systems - Volume Part I
Year:
2007

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Abstract

As workflow technology evolves into the grid domain, workflow process becomes more and more complex, raising a great challenge both to workflow modeling and workflow execution. In response to the challenge, this paper puts forward a goal-driven workflow framework. The framework first proposes process pattern as an effective way for procedural knowledge representation and then deploys a pattern-based planning algorithm to (semi-) automatically generate workflow on the fly according to the goal specified by users and the running context. Such a goal-driven workflow management paradigm could not only enhance the flexibility and adaptability of workflow system but also ease the heavy burden of workflow definition.