SAWE

Semantic and Autonomic Workflow Engine

SAWE (Semantic and Autonomic Workflow Engine) is a workflow enactment system compliant with the WfMC abstract reference model. The main objective of SAWE is to deliver advanced services for creating, managing and enacting workflow processes (described in XPDL, BPEL and in future also GWorkflowDL), in business, engineering and scientific domains. These services enable:

1. automatic composition of abstract and concrete workflows from services described in OWL-S;
2. dynamic binding of resources for task execution through semantic matchmaking of resource descriptions both for functional and non-functional aspects;
3. programmable monitoring for handling exceptional events during workflow execution;
4. workflow autonomic adaptation to react to exceptional or programmed events.