The pervasive workflow: A decentralized workflow system supporting long-running transactions

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part C: Applications and Reviews

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 319-333

  Montagut, Frederic ^a   Molva, Rifek ^b   Tecumseh Golega, Silvan Tecumseh ^c  

^a Systems Applications and Products (SAP) Research Laboratories   (France)

^b EURECOM   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Decentralized workflows; Transaction aware composition; Transactional consistency

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; ONTOLOGY; WEB SERVICES;

BUSINESS PROCESS EXECUTION LANGUAGE; DECENTRALIZED WORKFLOW SYSTEM; ONTOLOGY WEB LANGUAGE; TRANSACTION-AWARE COMPOSITION; TRANSACTIONAL CONSISTENCY;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 43449104517     PISSN: 10946977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCC.2008.919184     Document Type: Conference Paper

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