Flexible Process Management Systems

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Table of contents

Chapitre 1 Introduction
1.1 Contributions
1.2 Thesis Outline
Chapitre 2 Context
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Coordination of Activities by People of Dierent Organizations in Dynamic Situations
2.2.1 Motivational Example : Coordination in the Disaster Response
2.2.2 Background : Disaster Response Management
2.2.3 Summary
2.3 Research Problems and Contributions
2.3.1 Problem Statement
2.3.2 Research Questions and Method
2.3.3 Publications
2.4 Conclusion
Chapitre 3 State of the Art
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Coordination of Activities in Dynamic Situations
3.2.1 Process-Based Coordination
3.2.2 Artifact-Based Coordination
3.2.3 Rule-Based Coordination
3.2.4 Integrated Approaches
3.2.5 Summary
3.3 Coordination by People of Dierent Organizations
3.4 Conclusion
Chapitre 4 Framework for Coordination of Activities
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Modeling Coordination of Activities
4.2.1 Activity Type
4.2.2 Activity
4.2.3 Temporal Dependency
4.2.4 Summary
4.3 Verication
4.3.1 Translation of a Model into a Temporal Constraint Network
4.3.2 Checking Satisability of a Temporal Constraint Network Using
4.3.3 Performance Considerations
4.3.4 Summary
4.4 Detecting Deviations from the Model and How Activities Are Executed
4.4.1 Tracking Execution of Activities
4.4.2 Dependency Violation
4.4.3 Unsynchronized Dependencies
4.4.4 Summary
4.5 Example
4.6 Related Work
4.7 Conclusion
Chapitre 5 Inter-Organizational Coordination
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Sharing Activities between Organizations
5.2.1 Activity Workspace
5.2.2 Example for Sharing of Activities
5.2.3 Replicating Shared Activities in Dierent Activity Workspaces
5.2.4 Summary
5.3 Verifying an Activity Workspace Containing Shared Activities
5.3.1 Problem Statement
5.3.2 Requirements for Verication
5.3.3 Discussion of Requirements
5.3.4 Protocol for Verication of an AW Containing Shared Activities
5.3.5 Summary
5.4 Detecting Deviations from the Model and How Shared Activities Are Executed
5.4.1 Tracking the Execution of Shared Activities
5.4.2 Conicting State Changes of the Same Shared Activity
5.4.3 Conicting Views on the Causal Order of State Changes of Dependent Shared Activities
5.4.4 Detecting Violation of Temporal Dependencies Involving Shared Activities
5.4.5 Detecting Unsynchronized Dependencies Involving Shared Activities
5.4.6 Incomplete Propagation of State Changes of a Shared Activity
5.4.7 Summary
5.5 Related Work
5.6 Conclusion
Chapitre 6 Implementation
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Main components
6.3 Integration into Google WaveTM
6.3.1 Preliminaries
6.3.2 Extension – Architecture
6.3.3 Extension : Persistence of ActivityWorkspaces and Replicating Shared Activities
6.3.4 Gadget – Graphical Modeling Tool
6.3.5 Robot – Distributed Coordination
6.4 Conclusion
Chapitre 7 Evaluation
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Interviews
7.2.1 Selected Comments
7.2.2 Discussion
7.3 Design of an Experiment
7.3.1 Design Details
7.3.2 Data Sources
7.3.3 Validation of the Experiment Design
7.3.4 Discussion
7.4 Conclusion
Chapitre 8 Conclusion and Perspectives
8.1 Contributions
8.2 Perspectives for Future Research
Annexe A Case Study Prototype
A.1 Modeling of Activities
A.2 Modeling of Dependencies
A.3 Sharing of Activities
A.4 State Change of Shared Activities and Dependency Violation
A.5 Concurrent State Changes of the Same Shared Activity
A.6 Verication
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