@inproceedings{87400a52acc3493e94914f0cc0175951,
title = "EMWF for Flexible Automation and Assistive Devices",
abstract = "This paper describes an embedded workflow framework (EMWF) that enables flexible personal and home automation and assistive devices and service and social robots (collectively referred to as SISARL) to be built on workflow architecture. The process definition language supported by EMWF is called SISARL-XPDL. It consists of a subset of the WfMC standard XML Process Definition Language (XPDL) 2.0, together with elements that implement common mechanisms for robot behavior coordination. EMWF provides workflow engines for Linux and Windows CE platforms. The engines are written in C in order to keep their memory footprint and runtime overhead small. Performance data show that the overheads introduced by the engine and workflow data are tolerable for most SISARL devices.",
keywords = "Automation and assistive devices, Component-based design, Embedded middleware, workflow architecture",
author = "Chou, \{T. S.\} and Wang, \{Y. C.\} and Liu, \{J. W. S.\} and Chang, \{S. Y.\} and Lu, \{Y. F.\} and Ouyang, \{M. K.\} and Kuo, \{T. W.\} and Shih, \{C. S.\} and Hu, \{J. S.\}",
year = "2009",
month = apr,
doi = "10.1109/RTAS.2009.21",
language = "English",
isbn = "9780769536361",
series = "Proceedings of the IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium, RTAS",
publisher = "IEEE",
pages = "243--252",
booktitle = "Proceedings",
address = "United States",
note = "15th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Application Symposium, RTAS 2009 ; Conference date: 14-04-2009 Through 16-04-2009",
}