Title :
Supporting Mobile Business Workflow with Commune
Author :
Davis, John ; Sow, Daby ; Bourges-Waldegg, Daniela ; Guo, Chang Jie ; Hoertnagl, Christian ; Stolze, Markus ; Eagle, Brian White ; Yin, Ying
Abstract :
We propose Commune, a workflow management system that supports a mobile workforce. We introduce the "mini-workflow", a network-isolated subcomponent of a business workflow process. Mini-workflows enable subsets of business workflow to be off-loaded into mobile client environments by leveraging Web services. We describe how mini-workflows overcome the challenges of intermittent connectivity and we describe our BPEL-based implementation
Keywords :
insurance data processing; mobile computing; real estate data processing; Commune project; HP iPAQ 6315; IBM WSADIE BPEL engine; J2ME CDC-FP; insurance assessment workflow; insurance assessor; mobile business workflow; property damage investigation; property information; Business; Calendars; Conferences; Engines; Humans; Insurance; Process design; Service oriented architecture; Web services; Workflow management software;
Conference_Titel :
Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, 2006. WMCSA '06. Proceedings. 7th IEEE Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Orcas Island, WA
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2439-7
DOI :
10.1109/WMCSA.2006.26
