Building workflow management system based on OGSA

Author

Yang, Minghi ; Liang, Hongbhg ; Xu, Bin

Author_Institution

Coll. of Comput. Sci., Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou, China

fYear

2005

fDate

19-22 March 2005

Firstpage

289

Lastpage

293

Abstract

Workflow technology is a prime method to manage processes and resource. Building a distributed workflow management system (WSMS) in grid environment has attracted many researchers. Everything can be regarded as a service in OGSA (open grid service architecture). Thus a distributed workflow management can be easily built based on the composition of several component services. Using this service-oriented system architecture, a workflow management system embodies many attractive characteristics such as great efficiency, higher fault tolerant ability, good load balancing and reliability etc. This paper presents the architecture of s-WFMS, a service-based workflow management system in grid environment. Some important issues related to s-WFMS, such as process transfer, concurrent process execution, are discussed in detail.

Keywords

grid computing; open systems; workflow management software; distributed workflow management system; grid environment; open grid service architecture; service-oriented system architecture; Buildings; Computer science; Engines; Fault tolerant systems; Grid computing; Load management; Process design; Resource management; Technology management; Workflow management software;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Networking, Sensing and Control, 2005. Proceedings. 2005 IEEE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8812-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICNSC.2005.1461203

Filename

1461203