Logging in Distributed Workflows
Proceedings of the Workshop on Privacy Enforcement and Accountability with Semantics (PEAS2007) at ISWC/ASWC2007, Busan, South Korea, (November 2007)Abstract
Business needs are nowadays frequently realized by business workflows spanning multiple organizations. Current infrastructures, such as SOA, support this trend on the implementation side. As a side effect these issues of privacy and data protection arise, because data is shipped across organizational boundaries. At the same time increased awareness about protection of privacy and IPR have lead to comprehensive contractual and legal constructs - including the information of services consumers about the ways their data is handled. We propose to solve such information requests in widely distributed workflow executions by gathering the related information during the execution and attaching it directly to the processed data. Together with the data this information is passed through the workflow and at the end it is returned to the service consumer.
