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Key Issues and Experiences in Development of Distributed Workflow Management Systems

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Research on workflow technology has been promoting the development of workflow management systems (WfMSs). Compared to centralised WfMSs, the development of distributed WfMSs are much more complex. Therefore, it needs to analyse their development from the software engineering perspective. This paper first presents the development lifecycle of distributed WfMSs, and then discusses issues of enterprise-wide workflow modeling and implementation of distributed WfMSs. Furthermore, we report on a case study and discuss issues related to the implementation of some components.

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  1. School of Information Technology, Swinburne University of Technology, PO Box 218, Hawthorn, VIC, 3122, Australia

    Hongchen Li & Yun Yang

  2. Department of Computer Science & Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R. China, 100084

    Meilin Shi

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  1. School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, 4072, Australia

    Xiaofang Zhou  & Maria E. Orlowska  & 

  2. Department of Mathematics and Computing, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, QLD, 4350, Australia

    Yanchun Zhang

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Li, H., Yang, Y., Shi, M. (2003). Key Issues and Experiences in Development of Distributed Workflow Management Systems. In: Zhou, X., Orlowska, M.E., Zhang, Y. (eds) Web Technologies and Applications. APWeb 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2642. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36901-5_51

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