A workflow-based electronic marketplace on the Web
ACM SIGMOD Record
Formalization of Workflows and Correctness Issues in the Presence of Concurrency
Distributed and Parallel Databases - Special issue on electronic commerce
A Data Warehouse for Workflow Logs
EDCIS '02 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Engineering and Deployment of Cooperative Information Systems
A Component-Based Workflow System with Dynamic Modifications
NGIT '99 Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Next Generation Information Technologies and Systems
METU-Emar: An Agent-Based Electronic Marketplace on the Web
ECDL '98 Proceedings of the Second European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
Querying and Splicing of XML Workflows
CooplS '01 Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems
Collecting and Querying Distributed Traces of Composite Service Executions
On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems, 2002 - DOA/CoopIS/ODBASE 2002 Confederated International Conferences DOA, CoopIS and ODBASE 2002
Peer-to-Peer Traced Execution of Composite Services
TES '01 Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Technologies for E-Services
Dockets: A Model for Adding Value to Content
ER '99 Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling
Computers in Industry - Special issue: Process/workflow mining
Mining and Reasoning on Workflows
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Mining unconnected patterns in workflows
Information Systems
Workflow-Centric Information Distribution Through E-Mail
Journal of Management Information Systems
Mining frequent instances on workflows
PAKDD'03 Proceedings of the 7th Pacific-Asia conference on Advances in knowledge discovery and data mining
Mining constrained graphs: the case of workflow systems
Proceedings of the 2004 European conference on Constraint-Based Mining and Inductive Databases
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A workflow history manager maintains the information essential for workflow monitoring and data mining as well as for recovery and authorization purposes.Certain characteristics of workflow systems like the necessity to run these systems on heterogeneous, autonomous and distributed environments and the nature of data, prevent history management in workflows to be handled by the classical data management techniques like distributed DBMSs. We further demonstrate that multi-database query processing techniques are also not appropriate for the problem at hand.In this paper, we describe history management, i.e., the structure of the history and querying of the history, in a fully distributed workflow architecture realized in conformance with Object Management Architecture (OMA) of OMG. By fully distributed architecture we mean that the scheduler of the workflow system is distributed and in accordance with this, the history objects related with activities are stored on data repositories (like DBMSs, files) available at the sites involved. We describe the structure of the history objects determined according to the nature of the data and the processing needs, and the possible query processing strategies on these objects using the Object Query Service of OMG. We then present the comparison of these strategies according to a cost model developed.