A Gateway-Centered Workflow Rollback Decision Model Toward Autonomous Workflow Process Recovery

Authors

  • Hyun Ahn Kyonggi University
  • Kwanghoon Pio Kim

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.23055/ijietap.2016.23.4.2780

Keywords:

information control net, workflow model, control dependency, recoverability, autonomous workflow process recovery, rollback-points sequence

Abstract

In enacting a workflow process model, it is very important to control and trace each instance's execution as well as to keep it recoverable. Especially, the recoverability issue implies that the underlying workflow management system is able to not only provide an automatic error-detection functionality on its running exceptions but also to equip a very autonomous recovery mechanism to deal with the detected exceptional and risky situations. As a theoretical approach to resolve the autonomous workflow recovery issue, this paper tries to formalize a rollback-point decision tree structure based upon gateway-activities of a corresponding workflow process model, which is named as  a gateway-centered workflow rollback decision model. We strongly believe that the proposed model ought be one of those impeccable trials and pioneering contributions to improve and advance the capability of recovery in enacting workflow process models.

Author Biographies

Hyun Ahn, Kyonggi University

Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science

Kwanghoon Pio Kim

Department of Computer Science

Published

2016-12-19

How to Cite

Ahn, H., & Kim, K. P. (2016). A Gateway-Centered Workflow Rollback Decision Model Toward Autonomous Workflow Process Recovery. International Journal of Industrial Engineering: Theory, Applications and Practice, 23(4). https://doi.org/10.23055/ijietap.2016.23.4.2780

Issue

Section

Special Issue: 2015 Asian Pacific Conference on Business Process Manangement