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General Purpose Work Flow Languages (1995)
| Venue: | DISTRIBUTED AND PARALLEL DATABASES |
| Citations: | 13 - 4 self |
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@ARTICLE{Forst95generalpurpose,
author = {Alexander Forst and Eva Kühn and Omran Bukhres},
title = {General Purpose Work Flow Languages},
journal = {DISTRIBUTED AND PARALLEL DATABASES},
year = {1995},
volume = {3},
number = {2},
pages = {187--218}
}
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Abstract
Work flow management requires language support for work flow specification and task specification. Many approaches and systems for work flow management therefore offer at least one new language for work flow specification; task specification is usually done in a traditional language. This is motivated in particular by the fact that many components already exist and the task of the work flow tool is the specification of the interaction between these components. The intention of this article is to demonstrate that a general purpose programming language can serve both aspects. We do not really see the need to develop yet another language that a user or application programmer must learn. If an existing programming language like C or Prolog is extended towards work flow capabilities, it is easy to reuse autonomous existing software components and to build interfaces among them.
