ADAPTIVE WORKFLOWS FOR SMART DEVICES - A Concrete Approach Towards Device Failures

Seng Loke, Sea Ling, Maria Indrawan, Suryani Kurniati

2007

Abstract

Smart devices in an environment (e.g., home, factory, military settings, in-vehicle, office, etc) can be programmed and coordinated by a workflow in advance to achieve a user’s goal. No matter how advanced or smart the devices are, devices can fail during workflow execution. In this paper, we describe an approach to remedy such situations. We apply the existing concept of adaptive workflow management to a collection of devices, called a device ecology. Information about the devices are kept in a device hierarchy so that a suitable substitute device that can perform a similar task can be retrieved to replace a failed device in order to ensure the workflow can continue execution. Similarity is defined based on a device hierarchy in an ontology language. A prototype has been implemented as proof of concept.

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Loke S., Ling S., Indrawan M. and Kurniati S. (2007). ADAPTIVE WORKFLOWS FOR SMART DEVICES - A Concrete Approach Towards Device Failures . In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS, ISBN 978-972-8865-91-7, pages 191-197. DOI: 10.5220/0002368901910197


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis07,
author={Seng Loke and Sea Ling and Maria Indrawan and Suryani Kurniati},
title={ADAPTIVE WORKFLOWS FOR SMART DEVICES - A Concrete Approach Towards Device Failures},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS,},
year={2007},
pages={191-197},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002368901910197},
isbn={978-972-8865-91-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS,
TI - ADAPTIVE WORKFLOWS FOR SMART DEVICES - A Concrete Approach Towards Device Failures
SN - 978-972-8865-91-7
AU - Loke S.
AU - Ling S.
AU - Indrawan M.
AU - Kurniati S.
PY - 2007
SP - 191
EP - 197
DO - 10.5220/0002368901910197