Exotica/FMDC: A Workflow Management System for Mobile and Disconnected Clients

Alonso, Gustavo; Günthör, Roger; Kamath, M.; Agrawal, Divyakant; Abbadi, Amr El; Mohan, C.

doi:10.1007/978-0-585-26636-7_3

Cited by 21 publications

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“…RA is the set of recovery procedures mapped to failure events. Similar issues and methodologies have been considered in [7,8,9,10] (e-business workflows for distributed transactions and messaging).…”

Section: Disconnected Process Mechanismmentioning

confidence: 96%

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Self-managing, disconnected processes and mechanisms for mobile e-business

Sairamesh

Goh

Stanoi

et al. 2002

Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Mobile Commerce

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With the tremendous advances in hand-held computing and communication capabilities, rapid proliferation of mobile devices, and decreasing device costs, we are seeing a growth in mobile ebusiness in various consumer and business markets. In this paper, we present a novel architecture and framework for end-to-end mobile e-business applications such as purchasing, retail point of sales, and order management. The design takes into consideration disconnection, application context and failure modes to provide mobile users with seamless and transparent access to commerce and content activities. In our architecture, we consider a novel business process design based on state-machines and event management to handle disconnection and resource limitations. We designed, implemented and deployed a system for mobile ebusiness on clients integrated with private exchanges and sell-side servers.The e-business framework on mobile clients is implemented based on J2ME and open XML standards. A performance study of simple e-business transactions was done on the client using the above mechanisms and programming environment. We show that the performance of a purchasing process using the framework does reasonably well.

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Section: Disconnected Process Mechanismmentioning

confidence: 96%

“…Related work spans over multiple research fields from workflows [7,8,9], transaction management [10,16], recovery [15], and caching [12,13]. A new standards body on synchronization is emerging from corporations who want interoperability in synchronization of data [1,5,14].…”

Section: Issues On the Client Sidementioning

confidence: 99%

Self-managing, disconnected processes and mechanisms for mobile e-business

Sairamesh

Goh

Stanoi

et al. 2002

Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Mobile Commerce

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“…[2][12] [5][21] [16]. Our approach differs from these propositions mainly because of its focus on the decentralized process and because our approach does not assume the presence of sophisticated software layers on orchestrated services.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…We use the term decentralized orchestration to describe this mode of execution. Although the latter is not a new idea [2] [21], previous propositions have not found their widespread applicability in practical settings. Their slow acceptance is often attributed to, among other things, their architectural assumptions on process participants [12] [18] such as additional software layers.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 95%

Centralized versus Decentralized Conversation-based Orchestrations

Yildiz

Godart

2007

The 9th IEEE International Conference on E-Commerce Technology and the 4th IEEE International Conference on Enterprise Computin

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There has been a great deal of interest in recent years in the use of service oriented approach and relevant standards to implement business processes. Following the concepts of workflow-based process management, the major focus has been on service composition. Not surprisingly, this default composition approach suffers from the limitations of centralized workflow management. It is well recognized that a decentralized execution setting where composed services can establish P2P interactions, is central to the management of a wide range of ubiquitous, mobile, large-scale and secure business processes. A natural way to enable the decentralized execution is to implement the relevant distributed cooperating processes of a centralized process on composed services. In this way, composed services can establish P2P interactions following the semantics of their processes. In this paper, we present a generic approach that enables decentralized executions with such cooperating processes. Precisely, we present our method that derives the latter. We focus on the sophisticated control/data flow and conversational aspects that run counter to naive intuition, most of which, we explain using deeper analysis of the algorithms and data structures that we employed.

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“…IBM Almaden research center developed a distributed workflow management system based on persistent message queue, named Exotica/FMDC [4]. It consists of lots of autonomous and independent nodes while each node has the enactment ability.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

An Automatic Configuration Algorithm for Distributed Service Process Engine Based on Fuzzy Control

Cao

Wang

Ding

et al. 2008

2008 Fifth International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery

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Service Process Management System (SPMS) plays a very important role in today's business process management environment and automatic configuration is essential to ensure its scalability and stability. However, current simple and static configuration mechanism doesn't work well when the load of SPMS changes greatly with the time. An automatic configuration algorithm for distributed service process engine based on fuzzy control is introduced. The algorithm is implemented in a SPMS prototype based on the JINI platform. The experiment shows this automatic configuration mechanism improves the ability of adaptability and the efficiency of SPMS.

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Exotica/FMDC: A Workflow Management System for Mobile and Disconnected Clients

Cited by 21 publications

References 6 publications

Self-managing, disconnected processes and mechanisms for mobile e-business

Self-managing, disconnected processes and mechanisms for mobile e-business

Centralized versus Decentralized Conversation-based Orchestrations

An Automatic Configuration Algorithm for Distributed Service Process Engine Based on Fuzzy Control

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