Workflow management systems (WfMSs) are useful tools for bioinformaticians. As experiences with using WfMSs accumulate, shortcomings of current systems become apparent. In this paper, we focus on practical issues that hinder WfMS users and that arise in the design and execution of workflows, and in access of web services. We present e-BioFlow, a workflow engine that demonstrates in which way a ...

As workflow management systems become more complex and critical to an organisation’s performance, there is an opportunity for a new generation of workflow management products. These products could greatly increase the scope of workflow management systems in target application areas. One of the key extensions to workflow management systems will be the use of transactional semantics to increase r...

At the moment more than 250 Workflow Management Systems (WFMSs) are under development. This signifies that the term ‘workflow management’ is not just another buzzword. The phenomenon workflow management will have a tremendous impact on the next generation of information systems. Nevertheless, workflow management is still in its infancy. Despite the efforts of the Workflow Management Coalition (...

Grid computing is becoming a mainstream technology for large-scale distributed resource sharing and system integration. Workflow management is emerging as one of the most important grid services. In this work, a workflow management system for grid computing, called GridFlow, is presented, including a user portal and services of both global grid workflow management and local grid sub-workflow sc...

This paper highlights the need for adaptive workflow management, classifies various types of workflow adaptation, and discusses potential mechanisms for achieving adaptive workflow management. Our current efforts on adaptive workflow research are presented with emphasis laid on human involvement. The developments are based on dynamic composition of workflow resources, including workflow models,...

Workflow management, one of the important technologies for supporting collaborative work, requires database technologies like distributed data management or transaction management. However, as workflow management systems have several heterogeneities like heterogeneity about agents, spatial heterogeneity, temporal heterogeneity, etc., collaboration model for workflow management should resolve th...

Workflow management deals with supporting business processes in organisations, it involves managing the flow of work through an organisation [1]. Workflows are a collection of coordinated tasks designed to carry out a well-defined complex process [11]. A workflow management system is a generic information system that supports modelling, execution, management and monitoring of workflows. Many di...

Workflow management systems are now widely deployed for handling administrative and production applications. In order that the workflow management systems keep supporting a larger range of applications, several research works have been launched to improve the workflow technology. This paper reports on the CORVETTE [1] project, an experiment in developing a cooperative workflow management system...

Workflow management systems should efficiently manage workflow constraints such as time, resource, and cost during workflow executions. Especially, workflow time management is important in timely scheduling of workflow process execution, avoiding deadline violations, and improving the workflow throughput. Though there have been some studies on the dynamic deadline management in a workflow, the ...