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Workflow Management Systems and Interoperability

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  • © 1998

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Editors:
  1. Asuman Doğaç

    1. Software Research and Development Center, Department of Computer Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

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  2. Leonid Kalinichenko

    1. Institute for Problems of Informatics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, V-334, Russia

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  3. M. Tamer Özsu

    1. Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

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  4. Amit Sheth

    1. Distributed Information Systems Laboratories, Department of Computer Science, University of Georgia, Athens, USA

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  • First book on the topic
  • Leading researchers review and discuss current state-of-the-art and recent developments in workflow systems

Part of the book series: NATO ASI Subseries F: (NATO ASI F, volume 164)

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Workflow Management: State of the Art Versus State of the Products

    • Ahmed Elmagarmid, Weimin Du
    Pages 1-17

  3. A Distributed Workflow and Product Data Management Application for the Construction of Large Scale Scientific Apparatus

    • R. McClatchey, J-M. Le Goff, N. Baker, W. Harris, Z. Kovacs
    Pages 18-34

  4. Workflow Applications to Research Agenda: Scalable and Dynamic Work Coordination and Collaboration Systems

    • Amit Sheth, Krys J. Kochut
    Pages 35-60

  5. Design and Implementation of a Distributed Workflow Management System: METUFlow

    • Asuman Dogac, Esin Gokkoca, Sena Arpinar, Pinar Koksal, Ibrahim Cingil, Budak Arpinar et al.
    Pages 61-91

  6. HP Workflow Research: Past, Present, and Future

    • Ming-Chien Shan, Jim Davis, Weimin Du, Ying Huang
    Pages 92-106

  7. Reducing Escalation-Related Costs in WFMSs

    • Euthimios Panagos, Michael Rabinovich
    Pages 107-128

  8. The Workflow Management System Panta Rhei

    • Johann Eder, Herbert Groiss, Walter Liebhart
    Pages 129-144

  9. The WASA Approach to Workflow Management for Scientific Applications

    • Gottfried Vossen, Mathias Weske
    Pages 145-164

  10. Security Enforcement in Activity Management Systems

    • Kamalakar Karlapalem, Patrick C. K. Hung
    Pages 165-194

  11. Towards a Platform for Distributed Application Development

    • Gustavo Alonso, Claus Hagen, Hans-Jörg Schek, Markus Tresch
    Pages 195-221

  12. The Integration of Workflow Systems and Collaboration Tools

    • Nuno Guimarães, Pedro Antunes, Ana Paula Pereira
    Pages 222-245

  13. Interoperability in Large-Scale Distributed Information Delivery Systems

    • Ling Liu, Ling Ling Yan, M. Tamer Özsu
    Pages 246-280

  14. Enterprise-Wide Workflow Management Based on State and Activity Charts

    • Peter Muth, Dirk Wodtke, Jeanine Weissenfels, Gerhard Weikum, Angelika Kotz Dittrich
    Pages 281-303

  15. Transactional Support for Cooperative Applications

    • Jürgen Wäsch, Karl Aberer, Erich J. Neuhold
    Pages 304-338

  16. Migrating Workflows

    • Andrzej Cichocki, Marek Rusinkiewicz
    Pages 339-355

  17. Technology and Tools for Comprehensive Business Process Lifecycle Management

    • Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Aphrodite Tsalgatidou
    Pages 356-395

  18. Recent Trends in Workflow Management Products, Standards and Research

    • C. Mohan
    Pages 396-409

  19. Kerem — Reasoning About the Design of Partially Cooperative Systems

    • Opher Etzion
    Pages 410-422

  20. Workflow Technologies Meet the Internet

    • Umeshwar Dayal, Qiming Chen, Tak W. Yan
    Pages 423-438
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Workflow management systems (WFMS) are enjoying increasing popular­ ity due to their ability to coordinate and streamline complex organizational processes within organizations of all sizes. Organizational processes are de­ scriptions of an organization's activities engineered to fulfill its mission such as completing a business contract or satisfying a specific customer request. Gaining control of these processes allows an organization to reengineer and improve each process or adapt them to changing requirements. The goal of WFMSs is to manage these organizational processes and coordinate their execution. was demonstrated in the first half The high degree of interest in WFMSs of the 1990s by a significant increase in the number of commercial products (once estimated to about 250) and the estimated market size (in combined $2 billion in 1996. Ensuing maturity product sales and services) of about is demonstrated by consolidations during the last year. Ranging from mere e-mail based calendar tools and flow charting tools to very sophisticated inte­ grated development environments for distributed enterprise-wide applications and systems to support programming in the large, these products are finding an eager market and opening up important research and development op­ portunities. In spite of their early success in the market place, however, the current generation of systems can benefit from further research and develop­ ment, especially for increasingly complex and mission-critical applications.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Software Research and Development Center, Department of Computer Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

    Asuman Doğaç

  • Institute for Problems of Informatics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, V-334, Russia

    Leonid Kalinichenko

  • Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

    M. Tamer Özsu

  • Distributed Information Systems Laboratories, Department of Computer Science, University of Georgia, Athens, USA

    Amit Sheth

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