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We survey the requirements, concepts, and usage patterns of workflow languages which are used in today’s commercial or prototypical workflow management systems. After briefly reviewing workflow application development processes, basic notions of workflow modeling and execution and their relevant properties are introduced. A coarse classification of workflow languages is presented, and the main features of common workflow languages are described in the context of a sample application process.
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Weske, M., Vossen, G. (1998). Workflow Languages. In: Bernus, P., Mertins, K., Schmidt, G. (eds) Handbook on Architectures of Information Systems. International Handbooks on Information Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03526-9_16
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