Time management in workflows with loops

Abstract

The goal of this research is to enable proactive time management for workflows with loops. We want to offer time constraint patterns that allow the formulation of time constraints on activities that are contained in loops. Furthermore we design an algorithm for timed workflow graph computation considering loops and given time constraints. We use the time constraints to bind unbounded loops such that we iteratively expand the workflow, compute the timed workflow graph and check the satisfiability of the time constraints. We also deal with a fast recomputation of a timed workflow graph at the runtime, which is needed to care for slack distribution, situation assessment and enactment of escalation strategies.