Hyperlinking the work for self-management of flexible workflows

A new hyperlinking framework is proposed that aims to provide a fully decentralized workflow management environment, allowing workflow participants to independently and dynamically configure workflows. The framework consists of a work structure that represents a computational abstraction of work and can be created and updated independently by participants. Pre-built system level events can generate when a work structure is updated or removed, or a hyperlink pointing to the work structure is created, updated, or removed. Link conditions such as conjunction, disjunction, and selection, should be satisfied for enabling an event. The implicit configurations collectively made by participants can be structured to an explicit workflow representation for visualization purpose through navigating event and hyperlink definitions.