Fuseflow: A Workflow-Aware Fuselet Management Environment

Abstract

Public reporting burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 1 hour per response, including the time for reviewing instructions, searching data sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing the collection of information. SPONSOR/MONITOR'S ACRONYM(S) 9. SPONSORING/MONITORING AGENCY NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES)Air Force Research Laboratory/IFSE 525 Brooks Rd Rome NY 13441-4505 SPONSORING/MONITORING AGENCY REPORT NUMBER AFRL-IF-RS-TR-2006-232 DISTRIBUTION AVAILABILITY STATEMENT APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE; DISTRIBUTION UNLIMITED. PA# 06-494 SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES ABSTRACTInformation spaces deployed under the Joint Battlespace Infosphere (JBI) program utilize small transformation -fuselets -to build up applications of meaning to end users. FuseFlow is a design, management, and performance monitoring system for structured collections of JBI fuselets and non-fuselet clients. These collections, termed fuselet workflows, have clear meaning to end users and address significant challenges for fuselets in the areas of scale, concurrency, authoring, and maintenance. In addition, fuselet workflows begin to capture author intentions about how fuselets will interact and how end-user goals will be achieved; "meaning" is inherent in the collection, at a scale above individual fuselets. The FuseFlow system is founded on well-known techniques for designing business processes (workflows) to achieve customer satisfaction and for continuously improving the process. At the same time, FuseFlow components interact with existing JBI structures using established APIs, in order to implement the Fuseflow fuselet workflow abstraction.