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==eFLow: an Open, Flexible and Configurable Approach to Service Composition==
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                                                 Session 3: Integrating Process Management



        eFlow: an Open, Flexible, and Configurable
            Approach to Service Composition
                                  Fabio Casati
                                    HP Labs
                              fabio_casati@hp.com

                                      Abstract
The Web is rapidly becoming the platform through which many companies deliver
services to businesses and individual customers. E-Services are typically delivered
point-to-point; however, the e-service environment creates the opportunity for
providing value-added, integrated services, which are delivered by composing
existing e-services, possibly offered by different companies. In order to enable
organizations to pursue this business opportunity we are developing eFlow, a platform
that supports the specification, enactment, and management of composite e-services,
modeled as processes that are enacted by a service process engine.

In this talk I will present the eFlow model and system, which provides a flexible,
configurable, and open approach to service composition. In fact, eFlow provides an
adaptive and dynamic process model, that allows processes to transparently adapt to
changes in the environment, to customize service execution according to the
customers' needs, and to cope with exceptional situations. In addition, the model and
the system are configurable, so that applications running on devices with limited
storage space and computing power can download a version of eFlow that only
includes needed features and that has a smaller footprint with respect to the complete
version. Finally, eFlow is an open system, in that users can replace default
components with the one that best suit their needs, to be able to interact with a given
e-service environment. These characteristics allow the system to cope with the highly
dynamic and heterogeneous e-service environment.
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