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Workflows are activities involving the coordinated execution of multiple tasks performed by different processing entities, mostly in distributed heterogeneous environments which are very common in enterprises of even moderate complexity. Centralized workflow systems fall short to meet the demands of such environments.
This paper describes the design and implementation of a distributed workflow management system, namely, METUFIow. The main contribution of this prototype is to provide a truly distributed execution environment, where the scheduler, the history manager and the worklist manager of the system are fully distributed giving rise to failure resiliency and increased performance.
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This work is partially being supported by the Middle East Technical University, Project Number: AFP-97-07-02-08, by the Turkish State Planning Organization, Project Number: AFP-03-12DPT.95K120500, by the Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey, Project Number: EEEAG-Yazilim5 and by Sevgi Holding (Turkey).
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Dogac, A. et al. (1998). Design and Implementation of a Distributed Workflow Management System: METUFlow. In: Doğaç, A., Kalinichenko, L., Özsu, M.T., Sheth, A. (eds) Workflow Management Systems and Interoperability. NATO ASI Series, vol 164. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-58908-9_4
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