Specification and execution of transactional workflows
Modern database systems
Electronic markets for learning: education brokerages on the Internet
Communications of the ACM
Class Library Support for Workflow Environments and Applications
IEEE Transactions on Computers
A paradigm for decentralized process modeling and its realization in the Oz environment
ICSE '94 Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Software engineering
Advanced Transaction Models in Workflow Contexts
ICDE '96 Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Data Engineering
Client/Server Qualities: A Basis for Reliable Distributed Workflow Management Systems
ICDCS '97 Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS '97)
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
A Case for Message Oriented Middleware
Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Distributed Computing
| Hi-index | 0.00 |
As individuals and enterprises interconnect via wide area networks, workflows that span them seamlessly will become increasingly valuable. It is likely that heterogeneous participants - humans, applications, organizations - that are physically dispersed over such networks will share workflows that cut across organizational and geographic boundaries. We address the problem of designing a distributed workflow infrastructure that supports such scenarios in the presence of heterogeneous workflow systems and components. We present RainMaker, a workflow framework based on a service requestor/service provider execution model. RainMaker defines a core set of abstract interfaces that can be implemented by distributed workflow components. Together, the RainMaker execution model and interfaces provide a foundation for the interoperability of workflow systems and components.