Dynamic Routing and Operational Controls in Workflow Management Systems
Management Science
Configuration for Adaptation – A Human-centeredApproach to Flexible Workflow Enactment
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Interaction as a framework for flexible workflow modelling
GROUP '01 Proceedings of the 2001 International ACM SIGGROUP Conference on Supporting Group Work
Peer-to-peer information systems: concepts and models, state-of-the-art, and future systems
Proceedings of the 8th European software engineering conference held jointly with 9th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering
On building workflow models for flexible processes
ADC '02 Proceedings of the 13th Australasian database conference - Volume 5
Experiences in Workflow Management for Scientific Computing
DEXA '97 Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications
State-Based Modeling Of Flexible Workflow Executions In Distributed Environments
Journal of Integrated Design & Process Science
SwinDeW-a p2p-based decentralized workflow management system
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans
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Due to increased complexity and flexibility of processes and lack of modelling information, workflow processes are not always defined completely before their execution. Support for incompletely specified processes which require on-the-fly articulation of processes has become a desirable feature of workflow management systems. Unfortunately, this aspect is rather weak in contemporary workflow research. This paper reports innovative research on incompletely specified process support carried out in the context of SwinDeW, a peer-to-peer based decentralised workflow system. In order to extend the SwinDeW architecture and system functions seamlessly for supporting incompletely specified processes, a hierarchical process modelling and execution approach is presented in this paper. This approach supports stepwise elaboration of incompletely-specified processes on-the-fly. Further elaboration of a process is innovatively modelled as essential steps towards the process goal, thus being scheduled to execute as ordinary tasks.