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Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Notes on Workflow Management

Workflow management is a rich topic in both theoretical and practical sense. There are a large number of concepts and software products which support WM. There is specialization according to the domain, such as managing business workflow vs scientific workflow. There are some shared commonalities across these boundaries, e.g. widely adopted use of XML as a means to describe or capture the state of the system. However, business-oriented WMS do not appear well suited for computational workflow management. We note YAWL and BEPL as commercial oriented systems, while Kepler was designed to drive scientific workflow applications.

Paper on workflow scheduling on the Grid.

There is a useful Paper on Workflow Patterns. Illustrations below represent two of workflow patterns of interest in our application, among others.

1 comment:

  1. I am really impressive on your notes. In fact, i need betterWorkflow system in my company.

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