Workflow and Process Synchronization with Interaction Expressions and Graphs

Heinlein, Christian (2000) Workflow and Process Synchronization with Interaction Expressions and Graphs. Technical Report. Universität Ulm.

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Abstract

Current workflow management technology does not provide adequate means for inter-workflow coordination as concurrently executing workflows are considered completely independent. While this simplified view might suffice for one application domain or the other, there are many real-world application scenarios where workflows −− though independently modeled in order to remain comprehensible
and manageable −− are semantically interrelated. As pragmatical approaches, like merging interdependent workflows or inter-workflow message passing, do not satisfactorily solve the inter-workflow coordination problem, interaction expressions and graphs are proposed as a simple yet powerful formalism for the specification and implementation of synchronization conditions in general and inter-workflow dependencies in particular. In addition to a graph-based semi-formal interpretation of the formalism,
a precise formal semantics, an equivalent operational semantics, an efficient implementation of the latter, and detailed complexity analyses have been developed allowing the formalism to be actually applied to solve real-world problems like inter-workflow coordination.

Item Type: Monograph (Technical Report)
Subjects: DBIS Research > Publications
Divisions: Faculty of Engineering, Electronics and Computer Science > Institute of Databases and Informations Systems > DBIS Research and Teaching > DBIS Research > Publications
Depositing User: Eva Mader
Date Deposited: 14 May 2008 17:20
Last Modified: 14 Oct 2011 10:25
URI: http://dbis.eprints.uni-ulm.de/id/eprint/353

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