Workflow Management Systems in Distributed Environments

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Author(s): Spyridon V. Gogouvitis (National Technical University of Athens, Greece), Kleopatra G. Konstanteli (National Technical University of Athens, Greece), Dimosthenis Kyriazis (National Technical University of Athens, Greece), Gregory Katsaros (National Technical University of Athens, Greece), Tommaso Cucinotta (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy)and Michael Boniface (University of Southampton IT Innovation Centre, UK)
Copyright: 2013
Pages: 18
Source title: Enterprise Resource Planning: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Information Resources Management Association (USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4153-2.ch009

Keywords: Business & Management / Business and Organizational Research / Business Science Reference / Enterprise Resource Planning

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Abstract

With the advent of Service Oriented Architectures, more applications are built in a distributed manner based on loose coupled services. In this context, Workflow Management Systems play an important role as they are the means to both define the processes that realize the application goals as well as implement the orchestration of the different services. The purpose of the chapter is to give an overview of various solutions regarding workflow semantics and languages, as well as their enactment within the scope of distributed systems. To this end, major focus is given to solutions that are aimed at Grid environments. Scheduling algorithms and advance reservation techniques are also discussed as these are among the hottest research topics in Workflow Management Systems.

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