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An Approach to Enable Workflow in Mobile Work Scenarios

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This paper shows how to use workflows to model collaboration in ad-hoc mobile environments. Particularly, it introduces the concept of “active entity”, which is a network-isolated subcomponent of a workflow process. This is shown how active entities overcome the challenges of an ad-hoc mobile environment and describes the support required for this workflow extension in terms of lightweight software architecture for mobile devices.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Universidad de Chile, Chile

    Andrés Neyem, Sergio F. Ochoa & José A. Pino

  2. CIGIP Group, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain

    Dario Franco

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  1. Integrated Manufacturing Technologies Institute, National Research Council Canada, N6G 4X8, London, Ontario, Canada

    Weiming Shen

  2. School of Information Systems, Faculty of Business University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia

    Jianming Yong

  3. Faculty of Information & Communication Technologies, Swinburne University of Technology Hawthorn, PO Box 218, 3122, Melbourne, Australia

    Yun Yang

  4. Université de Technologie de Compiègne, Centre de Recherches de Royallieu, 60205, Compiègne, France

    Jean-Paul A. Barthès

  5. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, P.R. China

    Junzhou Luo

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Neyem, A., Franco, D., Ochoa, S.F., Pino, J.A. (2008). An Approach to Enable Workflow in Mobile Work Scenarios. In: Shen, W., Yong, J., Yang, Y., Barthès, JP.A., Luo, J. (eds) Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design IV. CSCWD 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5236. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-92719-8_45

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