Performance and reliability analysis of computer systems: an example-based approach using the SHARPE software package
Model-based systems analysis using CSIM18
Proceedings of the 30th conference on Winter simulation
A configuration management approach for large workflow management systems
WACC '99 Proceedings of the international joint conference on Work activities coordination and collaboration
Workflow Management Systems and Interoperability
Workflow Management Systems and Interoperability
Performance Evaluation: Origins and Directions
Performance Evaluation: Origins and Directions
Providing High Availability in Very Large Worklflow Management Systems
EDBT '96 Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Extending Database Technology: Advances in Database Technology
COOPIS '97 Proceedings of the Second IFCIS International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems
Benchmarking and Configuration of Workflow Management Systems
CooplS '02 Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems
XML-enabled workflow management for e-services across heterogeneous platforms
The VLDB Journal — The International Journal on Very Large Data Bases
Deriving Service Models in Cross-Organizational Workflows
RIDE '99 Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop on Research Issues on Data Engineering: Information Technology for Virtual Enterprises
Highly Available Process Support Systems: Implementing Backup Mechanisms
SRDS '99 Proceedings of the 18th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems
QoS-Aware Middleware for Web Services Composition
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Autonomic resource provisioning for software business processes
Information and Software Technology
Mining unconnected patterns in workflows
Information Systems
VLDB '02 Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Very Large Data Bases
A probabilistic approach to modeling and estimating the QoS of web-services-based workflows
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Framework for Web service query algebra and optimization
ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB)
Web process and workflow path mining using the Multimethod approach
International Journal of Business Intelligence and Data Mining
A stochastic model for workflow QoS evaluation
Scientific Programming - Scientific Workflows
On Composite Service Optimization Across Distributed QoS Registries
ICCS '07 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Computational Science, Part IV: ICCS 2007
Monitoring the QoS for Web Services
ICSOC '07 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Service-Oriented Computing
Event-Driven Quality of Service Prediction
ICSOC '08 Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing
Combining global optimization with local selection for efficient QoS-aware service composition
Proceedings of the 18th international conference on World wide web
A Technique for the Prediction of Deadline-Violations in Inter-Organizational Business Processes
Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Databases and Information Systems IV: Selected Papers from the Seventh International Baltic Conference DB&IS'2006
Composing Time-Aware Web Service Orchestrations
CAiSE '09 Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
Mining frequent instances on workflows
PAKDD'03 Proceedings of the 7th Pacific-Asia conference on Advances in knowledge discovery and data mining
A dynamically self-configurable service process engine
World Wide Web
Sustaining high-availability and quality of web services
ICWE'10 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Current trends in web engineering
Stochastic modeling and quality evaluation of workflow systems based on QWF-Nets
ICCS'06 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Computational Science - Volume Part III
An architecture for proactive timed web service compositions
BPM'06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Business Process Management Workshops
Accelerating workflows with fixed date constraints
ER'05 Proceedings of the 24th international conference on Conceptual Modeling
SENECA – simulation of algorithms for the selection of web services for compositions
TES'05 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Technologies for E-Services
A hybrid approach for efficient Web service composition with end-to-end QoS constraints
ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB)
Workflow composition of service level agreements for web services
Decision Support Systems
Accelerating Web Service Workflow Execution via Intelligent Allocation of Services to Servers
Journal of Database Management
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Workflow management systems (WFMS) that are geared for the orchestration of business processes across multiple organizations are complex distributed systems: they consist of multiple workflow engines, application servers, and communication middleware servers such as ORBs, where each of these server types can be replicated on multiple computers for scalability and availability.Finding an appropriate system configuration with guaranteed application-specific quality of service in terms of throughput, response time, and tolerable downtime is a major challenge for human system administrators. This paper presents a tool that largely automates the task of configuring a distributed WFMS. Based on a suite of mathematical models, the tool derives the necessary degrees of replication for the various server types in order to meet specified goals for performance and availability as well as "performability" when service is degraded due to outages of individual servers. The paper describes the configuration tool, with emphasis on how to capture the load behavior of workflows in a realistic manner. We also present extensive experiments that evaluate the accuracy of the tool's underlying models and demonstrate the practical feasibility of automating the task of configuring a distributed WFMS. The experiments use a detailed simulation which in turn has been validated through measurements with the Mentor-lite prototype system.