TY - GEN
T1 - Towards a Framework and Platform for Mobile, Distributed Workflow Enactment Services on a Possible Future of ERP Infrastructure
AU - Auer, Dagmar
AU - Draheim, Dirk
AU - Geist, Verena
AU - Kopetzky, Theodorich
AU - Küng, Josef
AU - Natschläger, Christine
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - In this paper we represent a workflow management system
architecture that realizes a sweet spot between the robustness of a centralized
master workflow management enactment service and the flexibility
of distributed disconnected workflow management services. The
architecture emerged in a concrete scenario with the requirement that
traveling business agents can proceed working with their supporting enterprise
application even if they are disconnected from the Internet and
therefore disconnected from their enterprise IT infrastructure. So far, the
solution deals with the data and workflow state facets of the problem and
appropriate data and workflow state synchronization are key characteristics
of the solution. On the visionary side, the realized architecture
can be turned into a general framework for robust distributed workflowbased
systems. Such architecture will generalize the central workflow
enactment service to become a hub for distributing not only data and
workflow state but also the mobile code that makes up the enterprise
application. Then, the crucial element of such an architecture will be a
sandbox virtual machine for the distributed slaves that interplay in data,
workflow, and code synchronization.
AB - In this paper we represent a workflow management system
architecture that realizes a sweet spot between the robustness of a centralized
master workflow management enactment service and the flexibility
of distributed disconnected workflow management services. The
architecture emerged in a concrete scenario with the requirement that
traveling business agents can proceed working with their supporting enterprise
application even if they are disconnected from the Internet and
therefore disconnected from their enterprise IT infrastructure. So far, the
solution deals with the data and workflow state facets of the problem and
appropriate data and workflow state synchronization are key characteristics
of the solution. On the visionary side, the realized architecture
can be turned into a general framework for robust distributed workflowbased
systems. Such architecture will generalize the central workflow
enactment service to become a hub for distributing not only data and
workflow state but also the mobile code that makes up the enterprise
application. Then, the crucial element of such an architecture will be a
sandbox virtual machine for the distributed slaves that interplay in data,
workflow, and code synchronization.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84946090426
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-37021-2_16
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-37021-2_16
M3 - Conference proceedings
SN - 978-3-642-37020-5
VL - 4
T3 - Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organisation
SP - 201
BT - Innovation and Future of Enterprise Information Systems
A2 - Felix Piazolo, Michael Felderer, null
PB - Springer Verlag
CY - Berlin Heidelberg
ER -