A top-down approach for workflow design is proposed in the framework of Petri net theory. Simple but powerful refinement rules are proposed that guarantee soundness of the resultin...
Piotr Chrzastowski-Wachtel, Boualem Benatallah, Ra...
Automatic generation of taxonomies can be useful for a wide area of applications. In our application scenario a topical hierarchy should be constructed reasonably fast from a large...
Abstract. Inheritance is one of the key issues of object-orientation. The inheritance mechanism allows for the definition of a subclass which inherits the features of a specific ...
Nowadays, software evolution is a very hot topic. Many applications need to be updated or extended with new characteristics during their lifecycle. Software evolution is character...
The autonomic workflow engine enables workflow to be dynamically specified and adapted using Event-Condition-Action rules. A new approach to autonomic execution of workflow process...