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An Overview of Workflow Management: From Process Modeling to Workflow Automation Infrastructure

by Diimitrios Georgakopoulos, Mark Hornick, Amit Sheth - DISTRIBUTED AND PARALLEL DATABASES , 1995
"... Today’s business enterprises must deal with global competition, reduce the cost of doing business, and rapidly develop new services and products. To address these requirements enterprises must constantly reconsider and optimize the way they do business and change their information systems and appl ..."
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commercial workflow technology and extend the scope and mission of workflow management systems to support increased workflow automation in complex real-world environments involving heterogeneous, autonomous, and distributed information systems. In particular, we discuss how distributed object management

Taverna: A tool for the composition and enactment of bioinformatics workflows

by Tom Oinn, Matthew Addis, Justin Ferris, Darren Marvin, Tim Carver, Matthew R. Pocock, Anil Wipat - Bioinformatics , 2004
"... *To whom correspondence should be addressed. Running head: Composing and enacting workflows using Taverna Motivation: In silico experiments in bioinformatics involve the co-ordinated use of computational tools and information repositories. A growing number of these resources are being made available ..."
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examples are used to illustrate the ease by with which in silico experiments can be represented as Scufl workflows using the workbench application. Availability: The Taverna workflow system is available as open source and can be downloaded with example Scufl workflows from

ADEPT flex - Supporting Dynamic Changes of Workflows Without Loosing Control

by Manfred Reichert, Peter Dadam - Journal of Intelligent Information Systems , 1998
"... . Today's workflow management systems (WFMSs) are only applicable in a secure and safe manner if the business process (BP) to be supported is well-structured and there is no need for ad hoc deviations at runtime. As only few BPs are static in this sense, this significantly limits the applicabil ..."
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. Today's workflow management systems (WFMSs) are only applicable in a secure and safe manner if the business process (BP) to be supported is well-structured and there is no need for ad hoc deviations at runtime. As only few BPs are static in this sense, this significantly limits

Workflow Mining: Discovering process models from event logs

by W.M.P. van der Aalst, A.J.M.M. Weijter, L. Maruster - IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering , 2003
"... Contemporary workflow management systems are driven by explicit process models, i.e., a completely specified workflow design is required in order to enact a given workflow process. Creating a workflow design is a complicated time-consuming process and typically there are discrepancies between the ac ..."
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Contemporary workflow management systems are driven by explicit process models, i.e., a completely specified workflow design is required in order to enact a given workflow process. Creating a workflow design is a complicated time-consuming process and typically there are discrepancies between

The Action Workflow approach to workflow management technology

by Raul Medina-mora, Terry Winograd, Rodrigo Flores, O Flores - In Proceedings of ACM CSCW’92 , 1992
"... This paper describes ActionWorkflowTM approach to workflow management technology: a design methodology and associated computer software for the support of work in organizations. The approach is based on theories of communicative activity as language faction and has been developed in a series of syst ..."
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of systems for coordination among users of networked computers. This paper describes the approach, gives an example of its application, and shows the architecture of a workflow management system based on it.

Pegasus: a framework for mapping complex scientific workflows onto distributed systems

by Ewa Deelman, Gurmeet Singh, Mei-hui Su, James Blythe, Yolanda Gil, Carl Kesselman, Gaurang Mehta, Karan Vahi, G. Bruce Berriman, John Good, Anastasia Laity, Joseph C. Jacob, Daniel S. Katz - SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMMING JOURNAL , 2005
"... This paper describes the Pegasus framework that can be used to map complex scientific workflows onto distributed resources. Pegasus enables users to represent the workflows at an abstract level without needing to worry about the particulars of the target execution systems. The paper describes genera ..."
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This paper describes the Pegasus framework that can be used to map complex scientific workflows onto distributed resources. Pegasus enables users to represent the workflows at an abstract level without needing to worry about the particulars of the target execution systems. The paper describes

Decentralised Workflows and Software Agents

by J.W. Shepherdson, S.G. Thompson, B.R. Odgers
"... This paper argues that the combination of software agents with existing workflow management systems can facilitate the degree of co-ordination and collaboration required to make virtual enterprises a reality. It describes the use of software agents in the: setting-up of decentralised workflows; reac ..."
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This paper argues that the combination of software agents with existing workflow management systems can facilitate the degree of co-ordination and collaboration required to make virtual enterprises a reality. It describes the use of software agents in the: setting-up of decentralised workflows

Scientific workflow management and the Kepler system

by Bertram Ludäscher, Ilkay Altintas, Chad Berkley, Dan Higgins, Efrat Jaeger, Matthew Jones, Edward A. Lee, Jing Tao, Yang Zhao - CONCURR. COMPUT.: PRACT. EXP , 2006
"... Many scientific disciplines are now data and information driven, and new scientific knowledge is often gained by scientists putting together data analysis and knowledge discovery “pipelines”. A related trend is that more and more scientific communities realize the benefits of sharing their data and ..."
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and use of what we call scientific workflows. These are networks of analytical steps that may involve, e.g., database access

Enacting a Decentralised Workflow Management System on a Multi-agent Platform

by Li Guo , 2006
"... This thesis presents sets of technologies for enacting multi-agent based decentralised workflow systems. Its purpose is to tackle some of the existing problems in the con-ventional workflow research from the system architectural and engineering point of view. Some of the problems addressed at the be ..."
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This thesis presents sets of technologies for enacting multi-agent based decentralised workflow systems. Its purpose is to tackle some of the existing problems in the con-ventional workflow research from the system architectural and engineering point of view. Some of the problems addressed

Workflow Evolution

by F. Casati, S. Ceri, B. Pernici, G. Pozzi - Data and Knowledge Engineering , 1996
"... A basic step towards flexibility in workflow systems is the consistent and effective management of workflow evolution, i.e., of changing existing workflows while they are operational. In this area, the most challenging issue is the handling of running instances when their schema is modified: simple ..."
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A basic step towards flexibility in workflow systems is the consistent and effective management of workflow evolution, i.e., of changing existing workflows while they are operational. In this area, the most challenging issue is the handling of running instances when their schema is modified
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