What is Resource Orchestration?

• Orchestration is behavior coordination
• Relations define and manage behavior, typically requiring orchestration
• Each relation is responsible for orchestrating its related activities
• Relations define and manage the behavior of their contributing resources (ex: subjects)
• Orchestration is a relational quality that can be as simple as triggering or sequencing conditions, but often involves more complex coordination.
• While orchestration is typically managed directly by the corresponding relation, more elaborate orchestration can be delegated to dedicated orchestrators (e.g. orchestration resources)
• Orchestration typically uses condition-based and/or time-based work-flow and behavior synchronization, sequencing, parallelization, triggering, and validation
• Work-flow and behavior validation includes milestones and approval stages
• Processes are compound relations that orchestrate their sub-processes
• Services (e.g. SOA) are processes characterized by service interfaces