Web-based resource-constrained workflow enactment tool development, 2008

Item — Call Number: MU Thesis Vid

Identifier: b2090067

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Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

The collection consists of theses written by students enrolled in the Monmouth University graduate Software Engineering program. The holdings are bound print documents that were submitted in partial fulfillment of requirements for the Master of Science degree.

Dates

Creation: 2008

Creator

Vidovich, Matthew (1982- ) (Author, Person)
Wang, Jiacun, 1963- (Thesis advisor, Person)

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research use. Access is by appointment only.

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Extent

1 Items (print book) : 51 pages ; 8.5 x 11.0 inches (28 cm).

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

This thesis presents a web-based enactment tool for workflows built using a WIFA tool or a resource-constrained WIFA tool. WIFA is an intutiive yet formal workflow formalism introduced to satisfy the workflow management needs of incident command systems. Resource-constrained WIFA extends WIFA by taking resources into account when modeling and enacting workflows. The existing stand-alone tools developed by WIFA or resource-constrained WIFA are good for workflow editing and verification. However, they are not intuitive enough to allow normal end-users to execute a workflow. The web-based tool presented in this thesis imports workflow models built using existing tools, displays tasks and resources status in a pure text format, pops and appends newly enabled tasks to the bottom of the tasks list. When a task is selected for execution, resources status is updated to reflect the resource usage of the task. Tasks are disabled if a resource shortage is detected. Workflows are executed following the basic control logic. The new tool can help promote the WIFA workflow engine from the application perspective.

Partial Contents

Abstract -- Acknowledgements -- Table of contents -- List of figures -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 3. Overview of WIFA model -- 4. Web-based resource-constrained workflow enactment tool development -- 5. Conclusion -- Appendix A. WIFA XML file structure -- Appendix B. Class diagram -- Bibliography.