In this paper, we address workflow management system for automatically operating yard management system which can fill up a gap between transportation and warehouse management system in supply chain management. But, it is difficult to find an optimal solution for yard operation problems because of its dynamic complexities. Instead, we propose workflow management system which describes the autom...

In the past few years workflow management has become an important topic both, for the research community as well as for the commercial arena. One important topic which has been treated at less detail so far is providing security and integrity in workflow management. The main goal of this paper is to study what kind of security requirements need to be enforced during workflow management and whic...

This paper discusses the application of existing workflow management systems to a real world science application (LQCD). Typical workflows and execution environment used in production are described. Requirements for the LQCD production system are discussed. The workflow management systems Askalon and Swift were tested by implementing the LQCD workflows and evaluated against the requirements. We...

Adaptability has become one of the major research topics in the area of workflow management. Today’s workflow management systems have problems dealing with both ad-hoc changes and evolutionary changes. As a result, the workflow management system is not used to support dynamically changing workflow processes or the workflow process is supported in a rigid manner, i.e., changes are not allowed or...

Workflow execution in the cloud is a novel field for processoriented case-based reasoning (PO-CBR). In contrast to traditional POCBR approaches where the focus is usually on single workflow instances, an entire set of workflow instances is considered that are currently running on cloud resources. While traditional methods such as running a workflow management tool monolithically on cloud resour...

Cloud computing is a new benchmark towards enterprise application development that can effectively facilitate the execution of workflows in business process management systems. Workflow applications often require very complex execution environments that are difficult to create otherwise. Integration of the workflow management systems for application deployment with any of the cloud platforms is...

Current manufacturing industry requires product data management (PDM) for efficient product development and production. As an important part of effective PDM solutions, workflow management facilitates creating and executing workflow so as to streamline business processes. Unfortunately, existing workflow management solutions are designed to handle static business processes; when a workflow chan...

Cloud computing is gaining tremendous momentum in both academia and industry. In this context, we define the term “Cloud Workflow” as the specification, execution and provenance tracking of large-scale scientific workflows, as well as the management of data and computing resources to support the execution of large-scale scientific workflows in the Cloud. In this paper, we first analyze the gap ...

Workflow management systems are becoming important not only as key technology in their own right but they are gaining leverage as a key application of database management systems. One of the main issues of workflow management systems, and thus implicitly of database management systems, is their support for flexibility to cope with frequently changing requirements in an organization. This has be...

Database technologies are indispensable for workflow management system, one of the remarkable groupware supporting asynchronous distributed cooperative work. In this paper, a formal workflow model suitable for database management, called workflow base, is proposed. A workflow is defined as a set of objects with two kinds of relationships representing flows. An execution model of the workflow mo...