Workflow management systems (WFMS) that are geared for the orchestration of business processes across multiple organizations are complex distributed systems: they consist of multi...
: This paper investigates the use of the Business Process Execution Language for Web services (BPEL4WS/ BPEL) for managing scientific workflows. The complexity, unpredictability an...
An increasing number of distributed applications are being constructed by composing them out of existing applications. The resulting applications can be very complex in structure,...
Workflow management systems integrate applications and data resources in business processes. Frequently they have to keep local copies of data in the so called workflow repositor...
Abstract. Database integrity constraints, understood as logical conditions that must hold for any database state, are not fully supported by current database technology. It is typi...