Sensors and Guards in a Context-aware Workflow Environment

Nico Kerschbaumer, Johann Eder

2010

Abstract

We propose a system for integrating context awareness in workflow management systems. The context is captured via simple or complex sensors. The workflow management systems interacts with these sensors and can use data about the environment in making decisions about the control flow. Since the environment - and thus the context of workflow execution - may change, we introduce sensor guards which monitor the sensors during specified critical parts of the workflow execution and raise an exception when the data transmitted by sensors leave their expected ranges.

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Kerschbaumer N. and Eder J. (2010). Sensors and Guards in a Context-aware Workflow Environment . In Proceedings of the International Joint Workshop on Technologies for Context-Aware Business Process Management, Advanced Enterprise Architecture and Repositories and Recent Trends in SOA Based Information Systems - Volume 1: TCoB, (ICEIS 2010) ISBN 978-989-8425-09-6, pages 55-64. DOI: 10.5220/0003020900550064


in Bibtex Style

@conference{tcob10,
author={Nico Kerschbaumer and Johann Eder},
title={Sensors and Guards in a Context-aware Workflow Environment},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Joint Workshop on Technologies for Context-Aware Business Process Management, Advanced Enterprise Architecture and Repositories and Recent Trends in SOA Based Information Systems - Volume 1: TCoB, (ICEIS 2010)},
year={2010},
pages={55-64},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003020900550064},
isbn={978-989-8425-09-6},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Joint Workshop on Technologies for Context-Aware Business Process Management, Advanced Enterprise Architecture and Repositories and Recent Trends in SOA Based Information Systems - Volume 1: TCoB, (ICEIS 2010)
TI - Sensors and Guards in a Context-aware Workflow Environment
SN - 978-989-8425-09-6
AU - Kerschbaumer N.
AU - Eder J.
PY - 2010
SP - 55
EP - 64
DO - 10.5220/0003020900550064