An overview of workflow management: from process modeling to workflow automation infrastructure
Distributed and Parallel Databases - Special issue on software support for work flow management
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
Advanced Transaction Models in Workflow Contexts
ICDE '96 Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Data Engineering
Distributed Processing over Stand-alone Systems and Applications
VLDB '97 Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
Flexible Exception Handling in the OPERA Process Support System
ICDCS '98 Proceedings of the The 18th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
RainMan: a workflow system for the internet
USITS'97 Proceedings of the USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems on USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems
CovaTM: a transaction model for cooperative applications
Proceedings of the 2002 ACM symposium on Applied computing
Automatic Control of Workflow Processes Using ECA Rules
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Finding and preventing run-time error handling mistakes
OOPSLA '04 Proceedings of the 19th annual ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications
Exceptional situations and program reliability
ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS)
Performability modeling for scheduling and fault tolerance strategies for scientific workflows
HPDC '08 Proceedings of the 17th international symposium on High performance distributed computing
Automatic documentation inference for exceptions
ISSTA '08 Proceedings of the 2008 international symposium on Software testing and analysis
A Workflow Engine-Driven SOA-Based Cooperative Computing Paradigm in Grid Environments
International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications
Resilient Business Process Management: Framework and services
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
A multi-agent based method for handling exceptions in computer supported cooperative design
CSCWD'04 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design I
A hybrid workflow paradigm for integrating self-managing domain-specific applications
GCC'05 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Grid and Cooperative Computing
Exception-Handling bugs in java and a language extension to avoid them
Advanced Topics in Exception Handling Techniques
A proposal to detect errors in Enterprise Application Integration solutions
Journal of Systems and Software
Ensuring reliability in B2B services: Fault tolerant inter-organizational workflows
Information Systems Frontiers
Predictable quality of service atop degradable distributed systems
Cluster Computing
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Workflow systems hold the promise of facilitating the everyday operation of many enterprises and work environments. As a result, many commercial workflow management systems have been developed. These systems, although useful, do not scale well, have limited fault tolerance, and don't interoperate well with other workflow systems. This article discusses the limitations of WFMSs and various research directions and potential future extensions to their design and modeling. By adapting solutions from other areas of computing such as database systems and programming languages, workflow services might be able to improve enough to meet the needs of mission-critical applications. If WFMSs are to become a commodity (which many practitioners and researchers believe), such concepts must make their way into commercial products.