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Modeling and Performance Evaluation on Change Time for Migrate Dynamic Workflow Changes
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This paper discusses formal modeling and performance evaluation for a type of dynamic change of workflow, called Migrate. Workflow means the flow of work and is designed to process similar instances, called cases. Companies need to continuously refine their current workflow in order to adapt them to various requirements. The change of a current workflow is called dynamic change of the workflow. Before changing a workflow, there exist cases in the workflow. If these cases are ignored or fall into deadlock, the changed workflow would become inconsistent. Since Ellis et al. proposed three change types, Flush, Abort, and Synthetic Cut-Over that keep consistency of workflows in 1995, various change types have been proposed, in which there is a promising change type called Migrate that is proposed by Sadiq et al. Sadiq et al. proposed the concept of Migrate, but did not give a formal model of Migrate. Meanwhile, we have proposed a measure, called change time, in order to evaluate dynamic change of workflows, and used this measure to evaluate the performance on change time for Ellis et al. 's three change types. However, the performance evaluation on change time for Migrate has not been done. In this paper, we first give a Petri-nets-based model of Migrate. Then we present a method of computing change time based on the net model. Finally, we apply the method to 270 examples and show the comparison results between Migrate and Ellis et al. 's three change types.
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Shingo YAMAGUCHI, Akira MISHIMA, Qi-Wei GE, Minoru TANAKA, "Modeling and Performance Evaluation on Change Time for Migrate Dynamic Workflow Changes" in IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals,
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Abstract: This paper discusses formal modeling and performance evaluation for a type of dynamic change of workflow, called Migrate. Workflow means the flow of work and is designed to process similar instances, called cases. Companies need to continuously refine their current workflow in order to adapt them to various requirements. The change of a current workflow is called dynamic change of the workflow. Before changing a workflow, there exist cases in the workflow. If these cases are ignored or fall into deadlock, the changed workflow would become inconsistent. Since Ellis et al. proposed three change types, Flush, Abort, and Synthetic Cut-Over that keep consistency of workflows in 1995, various change types have been proposed, in which there is a promising change type called Migrate that is proposed by Sadiq et al. Sadiq et al. proposed the concept of Migrate, but did not give a formal model of Migrate. Meanwhile, we have proposed a measure, called change time, in order to evaluate dynamic change of workflows, and used this measure to evaluate the performance on change time for Ellis et al. 's three change types. However, the performance evaluation on change time for Migrate has not been done. In this paper, we first give a Petri-nets-based model of Migrate. Then we present a method of computing change time based on the net model. Finally, we apply the method to 270 examples and show the comparison results between Migrate and Ellis et al. 's three change types.
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