A Work ow Management Systems Architecture that Support Ad-Hoc Recoveries

  • Authors:
  • Jian Tang;Xuemin Xing

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • IDEAS '99 Proceedings of the 1999 International Symposium on Database Engineering & Applications
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

Ad-hoc recovery is a phenomenon that occurs in work ow applications when an agent needs to alter the control flow prescribed in the original definition. It is usually caused by unpredictable reasons, such as an unexpected output of some individual tasks, events or exceptions due to the changing environment, etc. Due to its irregularity in nature, ad-hoc recovery in general cannot be dealt with by using pre-defined exception handler. On the other hand, since it allows changes without following a particular pattern, it offers greater flexibility than many existing work flow products do. In this paper, we introduce the concepts relating to ad-hoc recovery, and suggests approaches to supporting this phenomenon in practical applications. We concentrate on the architectural aspects at the work flow management system level, and describe functionalities of the main components and their interactions.