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Worklets: A Service-Oriented Implementation of Dynamic Flexibility in Workflows

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On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2006: CoopIS, DOA, GADA, and ODBASE (OTM 2006)

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This paper presents the realisation, using a Service Oriented Architecture, of an approach for dynamic flexibility and evolution in workflows through the support of flexible work practices, based not on proprietary frameworks, but on accepted ideas of how people actually work. A set of principles have been derived from a sound theoretical base and applied to the development of worklets, an extensible repertoire of self-contained sub-processes aligned to each task, from which a dynamic runtime selection is made depending on the context of the particular work instance.

An erratum to this chapter can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11914853_71.

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    Michael Adams, Arthur H. M. ter Hofstede, David Edmond & Wil M. P. van der Aalst

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Adams, M., ter Hofstede, A.H.M., Edmond, D., van der Aalst, W.M.P. (2006). Worklets: A Service-Oriented Implementation of Dynamic Flexibility in Workflows. In: Meersman, R., Tari, Z. (eds) On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2006: CoopIS, DOA, GADA, and ODBASE. OTM 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4275. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11914853_18

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