Coordinating Work on the Web with Workspaces

  • Authors:
  • Robert Tolksdorf

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • WETICE '00 Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

Workflow management systems focus on coordinating work that is situated in the real world. A strong trend towards combining workflow and Internet technologies has recently evolved. Workspaces combines coordination technology and standard Internet technology to exhibit various benefits of explicit procedure representation, distributed and uncoupled architecture and ease of access. Its architecture is based on workflows as coordinated transformations of documents. Basic steps transform XML documents under the control of an XSL engine. Coordination operations affect the order of execution in the workflow. Finally, a meta step compiles a workflow graph represented in the XML-based Workspaces Coordination Language into a set of XSL rules for single transformation steps. Workspaces use a Linda-like data space for coordination via XML documents.