DYNAMIC CHANGE OF SERVER ASSIGNMENTS IN DISTRIBUTED WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS

Thomas Bauer, Manfred Reichert

2004

Abstract

Workflow management systems (WfMS) offer a promising approach for realizing process-oriented information systems. Central WfMS, with a single server controlling all workflow (WF) instances, however, may become overloaded very soon. In the literature, therefore, many approaches suggest using a multi-server WfMS with distributed WF control. In such a distributed WfMS, the concrete WF server for the control of a particular WF activity is usually defined by an associated server assignment. Following such a partitioning approach, problems may occur if components (WF servers, subnets, or gateways) become overloaded or break down. As we know from other fields of computer science, a favorable approach to handle such cases may be to dynamically change hardware assignment. This corresponds to the dynamic change of server assignments in WfMS. This paper analyses to what extend this approach is reasonable in such situations.

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Bauer T. and Reichert M. (2004). DYNAMIC CHANGE OF SERVER ASSIGNMENTS IN DISTRIBUTED WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS . In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS, ISBN 972-8865-00-7, pages 91-98. DOI: 10.5220/0002628900910098


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@conference{iceis04,
author={Thomas Bauer and Manfred Reichert},
title={DYNAMIC CHANGE OF SERVER ASSIGNMENTS IN DISTRIBUTED WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,},
year={2004},
pages={91-98},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002628900910098},
isbn={972-8865-00-7},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,
TI - DYNAMIC CHANGE OF SERVER ASSIGNMENTS IN DISTRIBUTED WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
SN - 972-8865-00-7
AU - Bauer T.
AU - Reichert M.
PY - 2004
SP - 91
EP - 98
DO - 10.5220/0002628900910098