The Dependency Manager: a base service for transactional workflow management

Author

Günthör, Roger

Author_Institution

IBM Eur. Networking Center, Heidelberg, Germany

fYear

1996

fDate

26-27 Feb 1996

Firstpage

86

Lastpage

95

Abstract

The management of long lived applications is a great challenge to transaction processing systems. On the other side, workflow management systems (WFMS) provide mechanisms for basic navigation and synchronization of activities in workflows. However, WFMS do not allow reliable execution of transactional workflows since they have no provisions for activity coordination. We introduce the dependency manager (DM) which implements a mechanism for reliable synchronization and coordination of the state transitions of generic activities. The DM is designed as a new component of an extended X/Open architecture, which offers its services to both workflow management and transaction processing systems

Keywords

office automation; transaction processing; DM; Dependency Manager; WFMS; activity coordination; base service; extended X/Open architecture; generic activities; reliable synchronization; state transitions; transaction processing systems; transactional workflow management; transactional workflows; workflow management systems; Collaborative work; Communication system control; Computer architecture; Context; Control systems; Delta modulation; Information technology; Manufacturing processes; Navigation; Workflow management software;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Research Issues in Data Engineering, 1996. Interoperability of Nontraditional Database Systems. Proceedings. Sixth International Workshop on

Conference_Location

New Orleans, LA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7289-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RIDE.1996.492246

Filename

492246