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Adding Flexibility in a Cooperative Workflow Execution Engine

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This paper describes an approach to support cooperation in a workflow system. It is based on the combination of a cooperative transaction protocol (COO) and a traditional workflow model. This combination allows activities to exchange data during their execution. It also allows some activities to start in advance regarding the predefined control flow (anticipate) and to exchange results with their preceding activities. All these communications of draft results are done under the control of the extended cooperation protocol and under the responsibility of the users. This allows for more flexibility regarding the actual execution of the process model while keeping some control on the way the exchanges are done.

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  1. LORIA, INRIA Lorraine, Campus Scientifique, BP 239, 54506, Vandoeuvre les Nancy, France

    Daniela Grigori, Hala Skaf-Molli & François Charoy

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  1. Institute of Computer Science and Academic Computer Center CYFRONET, University of Mining and Metallurgy (AGH), al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059, Cracow, Poland

    Marian Bubak

  2. Faculteit der Natuurwetenschappen, Wiskunde en Informatica, Universiteit van Amsterdam, 1098 SJ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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  3. California Institute of Technology, Caltech 158-79, Pasadena, CA, 91125, USA

    Roy Williams

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Grigori, D., Skaf-Molli, H., Charoy, F. (2000). Adding Flexibility in a Cooperative Workflow Execution Engine. In: Bubak, M., Afsarmanesh, H., Hertzberger, B., Williams, R. (eds) High Performance Computing and Networking. HPCN-Europe 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1823. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45492-6_23

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