Flexibility plays an important part in the application of the workflow management system and has become one of the major research hotspots in this field recently. When adapting a workflow process definition to specifi...Flexibility plays an important part in the application of the workflow management system and has become one of the major research hotspots in this field recently. When adapting a workflow process definition to specific needs or changing the structure of the workflow process as a result of evolutionary change, coarse-grained reuse of work- flow is of significance to the reduction of the work effort, modeling system and enhancing the reliability of their work. Based on decomposition of workflow tasks and teamwork, this paper proposes an approach to describing interoperability behavior between roles in teamwork by using activity-pattern. In activity-pattern, abstract mechanisms of activity specialization and activity aggregation are presented, enabling reuse of workflow by means of reuse of interoperability behavior between roles. The experimental system shows that our approach presented is feasible.展开更多
基金This research is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (60574028) the Key Projects of Natural Science Foundation of Edtication Department of Anhui Province of China (2006kj016A, 2005kj065)
文摘Flexibility plays an important part in the application of the workflow management system and has become one of the major research hotspots in this field recently. When adapting a workflow process definition to specific needs or changing the structure of the workflow process as a result of evolutionary change, coarse-grained reuse of work- flow is of significance to the reduction of the work effort, modeling system and enhancing the reliability of their work. Based on decomposition of workflow tasks and teamwork, this paper proposes an approach to describing interoperability behavior between roles in teamwork by using activity-pattern. In activity-pattern, abstract mechanisms of activity specialization and activity aggregation are presented, enabling reuse of workflow by means of reuse of interoperability behavior between roles. The experimental system shows that our approach presented is feasible.