Managing Adaptivity in Web Collaborative Processes Using Policies and User Profiles

Adaptive Web collaborative processes are flexible processes executed on the Web, that can configure themselves according to information not available at definition time. In this paper we show how such processes can be supported by integrating an engine for flexible process definition and execution, Cooper, and a policy engine, Protune. The resulting framework is open in its nature, since it can integrate any (external) source of data. In particular, we show how our framework can exploit user profiles available on the Web to support process adaptivity.