Future Internet collaboration workflow

Abstract

The Future Internet predicts more and more networked devices on the Internet. These devices interact, exchange knowledge, and cooperate in a dynamic environment, changing their states. Each state change may be signified by an event. In scenarios, where a number of devices collaborate on a common goal, it is a challenge to capture relevant complex changes, and abstract them in particular collaboration situations. Further on, it is even more challenging to put those changes in a relevant context, and to reason about collaboration situations before adequately reacting on events (changes). We present a novel event-driven reactivity model for Future Internet collaborations. We implement a flexible collaborative workflow in a declarative way, solving before mentioned challenges. Particularly, Concurrent Transaction Logic is used for specification, reasoning, and execution of ad-hoc collaborative workflows. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009.