Authors:
Eric D. Browne
;
Michael Schrefl
and
James R. Warren
Affiliation:
School of Computer & Information Science, University of South Australia, Australia
Keyword(s):
workflow, adaptive, goal, activity, crediting, health, healthcare, care plans.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
;
Modeling of Distributed Systems
Abstract:
Workflow Management Systems (WfMSs) are increasingly being introduced to deal with cooperative
inter-organisational business processes. There are many situations in these distributed workflow environments, where, for a given business process, activities might be undertaken in one enterprise that overlap with, or repeat activities undertaken elsewhere. This paper examines such situations in the context of healthcare, where duplicated tests and procedures are costly and can have negative health impacts on patients undergoing unnecessary tests and interventions. Our approach is based on a two-tier goal/process representation of business processes and an execution model comprising a candidate discovery phase, followed by a component crediting phase. We introduce the notions of full vs. partial crediting, goal-level vs. activity-level crediting and examine the role that termporal constraints play in determining candidate components for crediting.