Reasoning about Repairability of Workflows at Design Time

Gaston Tagni
Annette ten Teije
Frank van Harmelen

This paper describes an approach for reasoning about the repairability of work flows at design time. We propose a heuristic-based analysis of a work flow that aims at evaluating its definition, considering different design aspects and characteristics that affect its repairability (called repairability factors), in order to determine if the work flow schema supports repairable executions of its activities through the application of repair actions. The analysis intents to identify and evaluate the impact of critical design flaws affecting the repairability of work flows. The results of this analysis are fed back to the work flow designer and used to improve the repairability of the work flow by making appropriate changes to its definition.

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@InProceedings{BPM08-WS,
  author = 	 "G. Tagni and A. ten Teije and F. van Harmelen",
  title = 	 "Reasoning about Repairability of Workflows at Design Time",
  booktitle =	 {BPM 2008 Workshops; 1st International Workshop on QoS in Self-healing Web
                  Services {(QSWS-08)}, 
                  in conjunction with BPM 2008 6th International
                  Conference on Business Process Management (BMP 2008)},
  editor =       {D. Ardagna et al.},
  pages =	 {440-452},
  year =	 2009,
  series =       "LNBIP",
  volume =       17,
  editor =       "Springer Verlag",
  keywords = {Meta-reasoning and Reflection},
  urlPaper =     "http://www.cs.vu.nl/~frankh/postscript/BPM08-WS.pdf"
}

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