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Towards Incompletely Specified Process Support in SwinDeW – A Peer-to-Peer Based Workflow System

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Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design I (CSCWD 2004)

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Due to increased complexity and flexibility of processes and lack of modelling information, workflow processes are not always defined completely before their execution. Support for incompletely specified processes which require on-the-fly articulation of processes has become a desirable feature of workflow management systems. Unfortunately, this aspect is rather weak in contemporary workflow research. This paper reports innovative research on incompletely specified process support carried out in the context of SwinDeW, a peer-to-peer based decentralised workflow system. In order to extend the SwinDeW architecture and system functions seamlessly for supporting incompletely specified processes, a hierarchical process modelling and execution approach is presented in this paper. This approach supports stepwise elaboration of incompletely-specified processes on-the-fly. Further elaboration of a process is innovatively modelled as essential steps towards the process goal, thus being scheduled to execute as ordinary tasks.

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  1. Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies, Swinburne University of Technology, PO Box 218, Hawthorn, Melbourne, 3122, Australia

    Jun Yan, Yun Yang & Gitesh K. Raikundalia

  2. School of Computer Science and Mathematics, Victoria University, P.O. Box 14428, Melbourne City, 8001, Australia

    Gitesh K. Raikundalia

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  1. Integrated Manufacturing Technologies Institute, National Research Council of Canada, 800 Collip Circle, N6G 4X8, London, ON, Canada

    Weiming Shen

  2. Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100080, Beijing, China

    Zongkai Lin

  3. CNRS, Heudiasyc, Centre de Recherches de Royallieu, University of Compiègne, 60205, Compiègne, France

    Jean-Paul A. Barthès

  4. College of Information Science and Technology, Xiamen University, 361005, Xiamen, China

    Tangqiu Li

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Yan, J., Yang, Y., Raikundalia, G.K. (2005). Towards Incompletely Specified Process Support in SwinDeW – A Peer-to-Peer Based Workflow System. In: Shen, W., Lin, Z., Barthès, JP.A., Li, T. (eds) Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design I. CSCWD 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3168. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11568421_33

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