Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing. 4th International Conference, CollaborateCom 2008, Orlando, FL, USA, November 13-16, 2008, Revised Selected Papers

Research Article

Towards Continuous Workflow Enactment Systems

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-03354-4_13,
        author={Panayiotis Neophytou and Panos Chrysanthis and Alexandros Labrinidis},
        title={Towards Continuous Workflow Enactment Systems},
        proceedings={Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing. 4th International Conference, CollaborateCom 2008, Orlando, FL, USA, November 13-16, 2008, Revised Selected Papers},
        proceedings_a={COLLABORATECOM},
        year={2012},
        month={5},
        keywords={workflow continuous workflows patterns data streams},
        doi={10.1007/978-3-642-03354-4_13}
    }
    
  • Panayiotis Neophytou
    Panos Chrysanthis
    Alexandros Labrinidis
    Year: 2012
    Towards Continuous Workflow Enactment Systems
    COLLABORATECOM
    Springer
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-03354-4_13
Panayiotis Neophytou1,*, Panos Chrysanthis1,*, Alexandros Labrinidis1,*
  • 1: University of Pittsburgh
*Contact email: panickos@cs.pitt.edu, panos@cs.pitt.edu, labrinid@cs.pitt.edu

Abstract

Traditional workflow enactment systems and workflow design processes view the workflow as a one-time interaction with the various data sources, executing a series of steps once, whenever the workflow results are requested. The fundamental underlying assumption has been that data sources are passive and all interactions are structured along the request/reply (query) model. Hence, traditional Workflow Management Systems cannot effectively support business or scientific monitoring applications that require the processing of data streams. In this paper, we propose a paradigm shift from the traditional step-wise workflow execution model to a continuous execution model, in order to handle data streams published and delivered asynchronously from multiple sources.