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Workflow Transactions

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Synonyms

Transactional business processes; Transactional processes; Transactional workflows

Definition

Workflow Transaction is a unit of execution within a Workflow Management System (WFMS) that combines process-centric approach to modeling, executing and monitoring of a complex process in an enterprise with data-centric Transaction Management ensuring the correctness and reliability of the workflow applications in the presence of concurrency and failures. Workflow Transactions accommodate application-specific Extended Transaction Models (ETMs) that relax basic ACID properties of a classical database transaction models.

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Consider a Workflow Management System (WFMS) that models complex processes in an enterprise (e.g., processing insurance claim) using a workflow structured as a set of business tasks that should be performed in a special order. Some of the business tasks can be performed by humans while some of them are implemented as processes that typically create, process...

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  1. Georgakopoulos D, Hornick M, Sheth A. An overview of workflow management: from process modeling to workflow automation infrastructure. Distrib Parallel Databases. 1995;3(2):119–53.

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  1. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Vladimir Zadorozhny

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  1. Vladimir Zadorozhny
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  1. Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Ling Liu

  2. University of Waterloo School of Computer Science, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    M. Tamer Özsu

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  1. Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Panos K. Chrysanthis

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Zadorozhny, V. (2018). Workflow Transactions. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_733

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