Dagmar Auer, Dirk Draheim, Verena Geist, Theodorich Kopetzky, Josef Küng, Christine Natschläger,
"Towards a Framework and Platform for Mobile, Distributed Workflow Enactment Services on a Possible Future of ERP Infrastructure"
, in Felix Piazolo, Michael Felderer: Innovation and Future of Enterprise Information Systems, Serie Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organisation, Vol. 4, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, Seite(n) 201, 2013, ISBN: 978-3-642-37020-5
Original Titel:
Towards a Framework and Platform for Mobile, Distributed Workflow Enactment Services on a Possible Future of ERP Infrastructure
Sprache des Titels:
Englisch
Original Buchtitel:
Innovation and Future of Enterprise Information Systems
Original Kurzfassung:
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.
Sprache der Kurzfassung:
Englisch
Veröffentlicher:
Springer-Verlag
Verlagsanschrift:
Berlin Heidelberg
Serie:
Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organisation