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MKWI
2008
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14 years 1 months ago
Model-Driven Process Development Incorporating Human Tasks in Service-Oriented Grid Environments
: Grid computing infrastructures and service-oriented architectures commonly rely on web services as their implementation technology. This technology allows complex workflows to be...
Julian Reichwald, Tim Dörnemann, Thomas Barth...
ZEUS
2010
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14 years 1 months ago
On designing a people-oriented constraint-based workflow language
The control-flow of business workflows is characterized by the strict execution order of the activities that is already defined at design time. This well-structured control-flow is...
Frank Leymann, Tobias Unger, Sebastian Wagner
EKAW
2008
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
A Generic Ontology for Collaborative Ontology-Development Workflows
As knowledge engineering moves to the Semantic Web, ontologies become dynamic products of collaborative development rather than artifacts produced in a closed environment of a sing...
Abraham Sebastian, Natalya Fridman Noy, Tania Tudo...
ATAL
2008
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Flexible service provisioning with advance agreements
In this paper, we develop a novel algorithm that allows service consumer agents to automatically select and provision service provider agents for their workflows in highly dynamic...
Sebastian Stein, Nicholas R. Jennings, Terry R. Pa...
AICCSA
2008
IEEE
222views Hardware» more  AICCSA 2008»
14 years 2 months ago
Managing access and flow control requirements in distributed workflows
Abstract. Workflows are operational business processes. Workfow Management Systems (WFMS) are concerned with the control and coordination of these workflows. In recent years, there...
Samiha Ayed, Nora Cuppens-Boulahia, Fréd&ea...
COOPIS
2000
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Workflow Modeling Using Proclets
The focus of traditional workflow management systems is on control flow within one process definition, that describes how a single case (i.e., workflow instance) is handled in isol...
Wil M. P. van der Aalst, Paulo Barthelmess, Claren...
EDOC
2006
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Combining Analysis of Unstructured Workflows with Transformation to Structured Workflows
Abstract-- Analysis of workflows in terms of structural correctness is important for ensuring the quality of workflow models. Typically, this analysis is only one step in a larger ...
Rainer Hauser, Michael Friess, Jochen Malte Kü...
EUROSYS
2007
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Discrete control for safe execution of IT automation workflows
As information technology (IT) administration becomes increasingly complex, workflow technologies are gaining popularity for IT automation. Writing correct workflow programs is no...
Yin Wang, Terence Kelly, Stéphane Lafortune
CLOUDCOM
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Cost-Minimizing Scheduling of Workflows on a Cloud of Memory Managed Multicore Machines
Workflows are modeled as hierarchically structured directed acyclic graphs in which vertices represent computational tasks, referred to as requests, and edges represent precedent c...
Nicolas G. Grounds, John K. Antonio, Jeffrey T. Mu...
TOOLS
1999
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Building a Repository for Workflow Systems
workflow technology is becoming the key technologyfor businessprocess modeling, reengineering and automating. During the workflowspecification, enactment and administmtion, there ...
Chengfei Liu, Xuemin Lin, Xiaofang Zhou, Maria E. ...