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Adapted from the concept of views in databases, workflow views are derived form workflows as a fundamental support for workflow inter-operability and visibility by external parties in a web services environment. However, because of the implementation difficulties of views in OODB systems, it is tough to realize workflow views in objected-oriented workflow management systems (OO WFMS). In this paper, we adopt the object deputy model to support the realization of workflow views in OO WFMS. The detailed definitions are given based on a reference model of an OO WFMS, namely ADOME-WFMS. Furthermore, we introduce E-ADOME, which enables the implementation of workflow views in the web services environment.
This research is supported by the State Key Lab of Software Engineering (Wuhan University, China) under grant: SKLSE03-01, NSFC (National Natural Science Foundation of China) (60273072), National 863 Project (2002AA423450), the Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education (20010486029) and Bubei Natural Science Foundation for the Distinguished Youth (2002AC003).
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Shan, Z., Long, Z., Luo, Y., Peng, Z. (2004). Object-Oriented Realization of Workflow Views for Web Services – An Object Deputy Model Based Approach. In: Li, Q., Wang, G., Feng, L. (eds) Advances in Web-Age Information Management. WAIM 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3129. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-27772-9_47
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