Transactional workflows: research, enabling technologies and applications

Proceedings of 1994 IEEE 10th International Conference on Data Engineering Pub Date : 1994-02-14 DOI:10.1109/ICDE.1994.283059

A. Sheth

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Abstract only given, as follows. Need to increase productivity and reduce cost have lead to reengineering and automation of operations across corporations. Some of the applications involve imaging, document processing and routing. These tasks can be effectively automated using current genre of workflow automation products. Some other applications involve tasks that can be modeled in client-server style using traditional transactions. These can be supported by distributed transaction processing/monitoring systems. Finally, there is an important class of more complicated applications that involve heterogeneous but automated tasks, with varying levels of transaction properties, and performed at heterogeneous systems. We look at three aspects of the emerging technology of transactional workflow management that aims to support such applications: Identify properties of a class of multi-system applications and the environments that can be supported by transactional workflow systems: Discuss how a transactional workflow management system is different from, but "builds upon" the current transaction processing and workflow automation technologies: Discuss some of the relevant database research as well as software system and application prototyping experiences, especially those related to the extended/relaxed transaction models. Much of the discussion is based on our study of some real (mostly telecommunications) applications, and research and prototyping done at Bellcore in collaboration with U. of Houston and MCC's Carnot project.<>

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事务性工作流:研究、启用技术和应用程序

摘要只给出，如下。提高生产力和降低成本的需要导致了跨公司操作的重新设计和自动化。其中一些应用涉及成像、文档处理和路由。这些任务可以使用当前类型的工作流自动化产品有效地自动化。其他一些应用程序涉及可以使用传统事务以客户机-服务器样式建模的任务。分布式事务处理/监视系统可以支持这些功能。最后，还有一类重要的更复杂的应用程序，它们涉及异构但自动化的任务，具有不同级别的事务属性，并在异构系统上执行。我们将从三个方面探讨旨在支持此类应用的新兴事务性工作流管理技术:确定一类多系统应用程序的属性以及事务性工作流系统可以支持的环境;讨论事务性工作流管理系统与当前的事务处理和工作流自动化技术有何不同，但“建立在”它们之上;讨论一些相关的数据库研究以及软件系统和应用程序原型设计经验，特别是与扩展/放松事务模型相关的经验。大部分讨论都是基于我们对一些实际应用(主要是电信应用)的研究，以及Bellcore与休斯顿大学和MCC的Carnot项目合作进行的研究和原型设计。

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