ECA rule-based support for workflows

Goh, Angela; Koh, Yaw Koon; Domazet, Dragan

doi:10.1016/s0954-1810(00)00028-5

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“…The procedure for processing the activities by directly accessing the work items is introduced using a state-transition model. The procedure can be easily understood by describing the creation and processing of various monitoring information using the ECA rule [19]- [20] connected with this state-transition model.…”

Section: Integration Of Work Processing Environment On Gis-based Pmentioning

confidence: 99%

Integrated GIS-based Logistics Process Monitoring Framework with Convenient Work Processing Environment for Smart Logistics

Yu¹,

Jung²,

Bae³

2015

ETRI J

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In today's highly competitive business environment, most companies try to manage their logistics function strategically to satisfy their orders as cost-effectively as possible and maximize their present and future profits. In this environment, logistics process visibility is essential to companies wishing to competently track components, parts, or products in transit from the original suppliers to the final destinations. Thus, it is important to provide instantly and easily recognizable information about such visibility to all stakeholders, especially customers. To ensure a high-level geographical visibility of the logistics processes, in this paper, we propose a way of implementing a GIS-based logistics process monitoring environment and of integrating a performer's work processing environment on the monitoring system. Additionally, to provide more abundant monitoring information, we describe a procedure for creating and processing various monitoring information, which are represented as ECA rules in this work processing environment. Therefore, it is possible to provide intuitive and visible monitoring information regarding the logistics process and resource elements. Keywords: GIS-based BPM, logistics process, process monitoring, process visibility, smart logistics. Manuscript received Aug. 5, 2014; revised Jan. 27, 2015; accepted Feb. 3, 2015. This work was supported by the Postal Technology R&D program of MSIP, Rep. of Korea (10039146, Development of Implementation Technology for SMART Post).Yeong-Woong Yu (corresponding author, hero@etri.re.kr) and Hoon Jung (hoonjung@ etri.re.kr) are with the IT Convergence Technology Research Laboratory, ETRI, Daejeon, Rep. of Korea.Hyerim Bae (hrbae@pusan.ac.kr) is with the Department of Industrial Engineering, Pusan National University, Busan, Rep. of Korea. I. IntroductionIn today's highly competitive environment, many companies are aiming to gain a share of the global market and take advantage of higher production and sourcing efficiencies. A key determinant of business performance nowadays is the role of the "logistics function" in ensuring a smooth flow of the materials, products, and information throughout a company's supply chains [1]. Most businesses aim to provide their customers with products or services in an effective and timely manner. Therefore, logistics is very important to business. In logistics systems, items are produced at one or more factories, shipped to warehouses for intermediate storage, and then shipped to retailers or customers [2].According to IBM Center, in today's world, by improving the visibility of inventories, asset management, and information, logistics has emerged as a key cost control area in many organizations' supply chain operations. One of the primary purposes to ensure such visibility is to improve the internal decision-making ability and operational performance. Through ensuring the visibility from the supplier to the end user, greater visibility can also provide a clearer view of their entire supply chain [3]. More recently, ...

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Section: Integration Of Work Processing Environment On Gis-based Pmentioning

confidence: 99%

Integrated GIS-based Logistics Process Monitoring Framework with Convenient Work Processing Environment for Smart Logistics

Yu¹,

Jung²,

Bae³

2015

ETRI J

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“…Workflow modeling tool is used to model the complex grid application, which can be seen as a collection of activities that are processed in some order. Workflow modeling tool is based on Event-Condition-Action (ECA) [11] rules providing a more flexible workflow-describing way. By modeling, related data are stored in files or database with multiple formats.…”

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CNP-based Implementation of Service-oriented Workflow Mapping in SHGWMS

Cao

et al. 2007

World Wide Web

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ShanghaiGrid has a complex service-oriented infrastructure. Workflow management is emerging as one of the most important part of it. Because the grid environment is very dynamic and the services are shared among many users, it is impossible to optimize the workflow from the point of view of execution ahead of time. In fact, one may want to make decisions about the execution locations and the access to a particular data set as late as possible. In this paper, we propose a method of using Contract Net Protocol(CNP) to implement service-oriented workflow mapping in ShanghaiGrid workflow management system(SHGWMS). Three types of workflow in SHGWMS are denoted as Abstract workflow(AW), Concrete workflow(CW) and Executable workflow(EW). Belief-DesireIntention(BDI) agent technology in SHGWMS helps the system meet challenges from the grid context. CNP provides a very proper negotiation model for agents. The problem of workflow mapping has been transferred to the problem of multi-agent negotiation with the help of CNP model in SHGWMS. We also propose AW2CW mapping algorithm and CW2EW mapping algorithm to accomplish service-oriented workflow mapping.

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“…The rule makes the data repositories react to internal or external events and trigger a chain of activities that includes notifying users and applications or performing data base updates. This process is similar to the business process, so the workflow researchers believed that we can take advantage of ECA rule and propose the framework of ECA rule-based workflow [11]. But as some other workflow frameworks, the former framework can't fit the development of Internet applications based on virtual organizations.…”

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Flexible Services Composition based on ECA Rule in Grid

Wang

Cao

et al. 2007

2007 Second International Conference on Communications and Networking in China

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Services composition is a way to integrate a group of individual grid services into one more powerful service so that the time and efforts to develop a new application can be reduced greatly. Workflow modeling and enactment is one of the most important methods for service composition. However, the existing approaches do not provide enough functionality to support workflow modeling and enactment forflexible services composition. We have developed a system named ECA (Event-Condition-Action)-rule-based workflow management system (EWMS) for grid services composition. The system architecture is introduced in detail in the paper. An image processing application is used to validate the feasibility and efficiency ofthe systemn

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ECA rule-based support for workflows

Cited by 42 publications

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Integrated GIS-based Logistics Process Monitoring Framework with Convenient Work Processing Environment for Smart Logistics

Integrated GIS-based Logistics Process Monitoring Framework with Convenient Work Processing Environment for Smart Logistics

CNP-based Implementation of Service-oriented Workflow Mapping in SHGWMS

Flexible Services Composition based on ECA Rule in Grid

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