Enacting business processes in a decentralised environment with p2p-based workflow support

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Title: Enacting business processes in a decentralised environment with p2p-based workflow support
Author(s): Raikundalia, Gitesh K.; Yan, Jun; Yang, Yun
Abstract: Traditionally, workflow adopts a centralised client/server architecture to enact processes, which has exhibited many weaknesses. This paper combines concepts from workflow technology and peer-to-peer computing and presents an innovative approach to support decentralised process enactment. With this approach, both process instantiation and instance execution are carried out in a genuinely decentralised fashion, which reflects applications' increasingly distributed nature better. In general, the process instance is created with relevant participants creating various task instances at different locations. In addition, instance execution is coordinated through direct communication among relevant workflow participants.
Publication type: Conference paper
Research centre: Swinburne University of Technology. School of Information Technology
Source: Presented to the 4th International Conference on Web-Age Information Management/WAIM, Chendu, China, 17-19 August 2003., pp. 290-297
Publication year: 2003
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Format: pp. 290-297
ISBN: 3540407154
Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/b11939
Peer reviewed