| Abstract |
Behaviors of workflow, CSCW, and software process systems can be
expected to vary widely depending upon the availability, or shortage, of resources
that they require. Thus, the precise specification of resources required by, and
resources available to, a system is an important basis for being able to reason
about, and optimize, system behavior. Previous resource models for such disciplines as
management and workflow have lacked the rigor to support powerful reasoning and
optimization. Operating system resource models have been sufficiently rigorous, but have
addressed a far too narrow and restrictive class of resource types.
For instance, workflow, CSCW, and software process systems deal with human resources in
addition to hardware and software resources normally found in operating systems. The
resource capability described in this talk combines rigor and breadth to meet the
ambitious challenges of modeling resources in workflow, CSCW and software process systems.
This talk presents a metamodeling approach that can be used to create precise models of
a wide range of resource types, and provides examples of the use of this metamodel.
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