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Work.ows have become a common tool for modeling organizational activities. Research and practice of Work.ow Management Systems (WfMS) involve ontological aspects (e.g., the relevant constructs for modeling inter-organizational work.ows [2,1]), design aspects (e.g., synchronization of concurrent work.ow instances [4]), reverse engineering [3], and optimization. The latter has seen few advances, especially when it comes to dynamic work.ow design, where organizations need to continuously revise their work.ows. As an illustrative example, consider virtual enterprises, enterprises that are formed in a competitive market to respond to the need to improve cost/performance ratio by cross-organizational cooperation. Cross-organizational operations require a dynamic .exible mechanism that can handle the data .ow among di.erent partners [5,6]. Therefore, if one partner delivers raw material to another partner for further processing, then whenever one partner changes the characteristics of the raw material (either a temporary or a permanent change) it should be re.ected in the business process of the other (e.g., machinery replacement). In environments that require fast response, an o.-line update procedure decreases the e.ciency of the organization and may cause unnecessary delays due to the need to restart the work.ow engine with any new change. Therefore, an optimized process, involving online recon.guration and .exible resource allocation, becomes an important feature of work.ow management.
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Gal, A., Michailovsky, E., Golani, M. (2003). Workflow Reconfiguration Using Chains. In: Meersman, R., Tari, Z. (eds) On The Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2003: OTM 2003 Workshops. OTM 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2889. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39962-9_8
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