Title :
Specification of constraints in business flow
Author :
Yura, Shunsuke ; Motoda, Toshihiro ; Yamamoto, Shuichiro
Author_Institution :
NTT Inf. Sharing Platform Labs., Tokyo, Japan
Abstract :
The paper proposes an approach which generates alternative flows and cancel flows necessary in exceptional conditions automatically with transactional constraint rules in business flow. In our approach, modification of a business flow is easier than current workflow systems because modification of the transactional constraint rule is not necessary unless constraints among the services change. The paper shows the effectiveness of our approach with a travel reservation example
Keywords :
electronic commerce; information resources; reservation computer systems; transaction processing; workflow management software; alternative flows; business flow; cancel flows; constraint specification; current workflow systems; exceptional conditions; transactional constraint rules; travel reservation; Aggregates; Airplanes; Books; Business; Environmental management; Information management; Laboratories; Portals; Web sites; Workflow management software;
Conference_Titel :
Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference, 2000. EDOC 2000. Proceedings. Fourth International
Conference_Location :
Makuhari
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0865-0
DOI :
10.1109/EDOC.2000.882349