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Triggering Replanning in an Integrated Workflow Planning and Enactment System

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Workflow management systems support and automate the enactment of business processes. For this purpose, workflow management systems use process definitions that have been manually planned and modeled at build time. Recent research approaches try to enhance this concept by automating the creation of process definitions, using planning algorithms. This avoids the need for predefined process definitions and thus increases flexibility and allows to save costs. An important aspect of flexibility is the ability to react to unanticipated events that might occur during runtime. This Reaction can imply replanning and dynamically adapting the process. This paper shows how replanning can be triggered automatically in an integrated workflow planning and enactment system. Triggers for monitoring process executions are presented and events are defined which lead to the evaluation of corresponding conditions for deciding when replanning is necessary. Finally, advantages, limitations and areas of application of this approach are discussed.

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    Hilmar Schuschel & Mathias Weske

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  1. Data Mining and Web search Research Group, Informatics Laboratory Computer and Automation Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences,  

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  2. MTA SZTAKI, Computer and Automation Institute, of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Kende u. 13-17, H-1111, Budapest, Hungary

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  3. Oxford University Computing Laboratory, Wolfson Building Parks Road, OX1 3QD, Oxford, United Kingdom

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Schuschel, H., Weske, M. (2004). Triggering Replanning in an Integrated Workflow Planning and Enactment System. In: Benczúr, A., Demetrovics, J., Gottlob, G. (eds) Advances in Databases and Information Systems. ADBIS 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3255. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30204-9_22

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