Authors:
Sarita Bassil
1
;
Stefanie Rinderle
2
;
Rudolf Keller
3
;
Peter Kropf
4
and
Manfred Reichert
5
Affiliations:
1
DIRO, University of Montreal, Canada
;
2
DBIS, Faculty of Computer Science, University of Ulm, Germany
;
3
Zühlke Engineering AG, Switzerland
;
4
Institute of Computer Science, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland
;
5
Information Systems Group, University of Twente, Netherlands
Keyword(s):
Information systems, business processes, flexibility, data analysis, B2B and B2C applications.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
B2B, B2C and C2C
;
B2C/B2B Considerations
;
Business and Social Applications
;
Communication and Software Technologies and Architectures
;
e-Business
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
;
Modeling Formalisms, Languages and Notations
;
Requirements Analysis And Management
;
Society, e-Business and e-Government
;
Software Agents and Internet Computing
;
Web Information Systems and Technologies
Abstract:
The capability to safely interrupt business process activities is an important requirement for advanced
process-aware information systems. Indeed, exceptions stemming from the application environment often appear while one or more application-related process activities are running. Safely interrupting an activity consists of preserving its context, i.e., saving the data associated with this activity. This is important since possible solutions for an exceptional situation are often based on the current data context of the interrupted activity. In this paper, a data classification scheme based on data relevance and on data update frequency is proposed and discussed with respect to two different real-world applications. Taking into account this classification, a correctness criterion for interrupting running activities while preserving their context is proposed and analyzed.