Title :
Enhancing the fault tolerance of workflow management systems
Author :
Alonso, Gustavo ; Hagen, Claus ; Agrawal, Divyakant ; El Abbadi, Amr ; Mohan, C.
Author_Institution :
Swiss Fed. Inst. of Technol., Zurich, Switzerland
Abstract :
Today´s commercial workflow systems, although useful, do not scale well, have limited fault tolerance, and don´t interoperate well with other workflow systems. The authors discuss current research directions and potential future extensions that might enable workflow services to meet the needs of mission-critical applications
Keywords :
open systems; software fault tolerance; workflow management software; fault tolerance enhancement; interoperability; mission-critical applications; scalability; workflow management systems; workflow services; Business; Companies; Fault tolerant systems; Insurance; Java; Joining processes; Patient monitoring; Production systems; Service oriented architecture; Workflow management software;
Journal_Title :
Concurrency, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/4434.865896
