Article3027
Modelling of Mobile Workflows with UML
Modelling of Mobile Workflows with UML
Veröffentlicht: 2010
Journal: International Journal On Advances in Telecommunications
Nummer: 1+2Der Datenwert „+2“ kann einem Attribut des Datentyps Zahl nicht zugeordnet werden sondern bspw. der Datenwert „1“.
Seiten: 59-71
Volume: 3
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Kurzfassung
Thanks to the advances on the field of mobile computing nowadays it is
possible to realize workflow systems, which provide support for mobile activities,
i.e., activities which are usually performed in situations where no
stationary computer is available.
It is obvious that the integration of mobile computers into workflow systems has a great potential especially for companies with a high portion of
mobile workers.
However, so far there is a lack of modelling techniques
that allow to express mobile-specific aspects of workflows.
In the following article we therefore introduce an extension to activity
diagrams from the Unified Modelling Language, which allows to model different types of so called location constraints.
Such a location constraint is a statement that defines where a particular
activity of a workflow has to be performed or is not allowed to be performed.
The proposed technique in particular supports dynamic location constraints,
i.e., constraints that are defined during the runtime of a workflow instance. Further, different classes of anomalies that may occur in diagrams according
to the proposed extension are also discussed.
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