Synchronization of Concurrent Workflows Using Interaction Expressions and Coordination Protocols

  • Authors:
  • Christian Heinlein

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems, 2002 - DOA/CoopIS/ODBASE 2002 Confederated International Conferences DOA, CoopIS and ODBASE 2002
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Current workflow management systems, whether they are commercial products or research prototypes, do not provide adequate means for inter-workflow coordination as concurrently executing workflows are considered completely independent. As this simplified view is not sufficient for many real-world application scenarios, interaction expressions and graphs have been developed as a simple yet powerful formalism for the specification and implementation of synchronization conditions in general and inter-workflow dependencies in particular. In this paper, different coordination protocols as well as an accompanying subscription protocol are introduced as a means to actually employ interaction expressions to efficiently synchronize concurrent workflows.