Workflow Transactions

Transactional workflows; Transactional processes; Transactional business processes

Workflow Transaction is a unit of execution within a Workflow Management System (WFMS) that combines process-centric approach to modeling, executing and monitoring of a complex process in an enterprise with data-centric Transaction Management ensuring the correctness and reliability of the workflow applications in the presence of concurrency and failures. Workflow Transactions accommodate application-specific Extended Transaction Models (ETMs) that relax basic ACID properties of a classical database transaction models.

Consider a Workflow Management System (WFMS) that models complex processes in an enterprise (e.g., processing insurance claim) using a workflow structured as a set of business tasks that should be performed in a special order. Some of the business tasks can be performed by humans while some of them are implemented as processes that typically create, process...

Authors and Affiliations

1. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

   Vladimir Zadorozhny

Editors and Affiliations

1. College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, 266 Ferst Drive, 30332-0765, Atlanta, GA, USA

   LING LIU (Professor) (Professor)

2. Database Research Group David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, N2L 3G1, Waterloo, ON, Canada

   M. TAMER ÖZSU (Professor and Director, University Research Chair) (Professor and Director, University Research Chair)

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