The Research on the Workflow Meta-Model Based on Web Service

This paper, after a careful study of the standard workflow meta-model given by WFMC, proposes a new workflow meta-model based on Web Service. This model takes advantage of the strong points of the Web service distributed computing model. Being a good extension and modification of early meta-model, it is more flexible, adaptive, and customizable. It can also smooth over the difference between various software and hardware platforms, to better support the interaction between workflow systems of different structures.