The Study of Migrating Workflow Based on the Mobile Computing Paradigm
Zeng Guang · Chinese Journal of Computers · 2003
The migrating workflow is a new direction within the workflow management area, but it lacks explicit definition and mechanism for migrating area management till now. Owing to the above reason, a definition of migrating workflow model adopted the mobile computing paradigm is first given by this paper, then a framework of migrating workflow system based on the dock which consists of an anchorage with a local network is proposed. Some key techniques about the migrating workflow system such as the construction of anchorage and migrating instance, the organization and management of migrating area, the path searching method and the lifetime of a migrating instance based on the framework, are also discussed here. Finally, we give an example to demonstrate that the definition is sound and the system is easy to construct and to manage.