Transactional Information Systems is the long-awaited, comprehensive work from leading
scientists in the transaction processing field. Weikum and Vossen begin with a broad look at …

Today's process-aware information systems tend to either support business processes or
provide flexibility. Classical workflow management systems offer good process support as …

Today's workflow management systems (WFMS s) are only applicable in a secure and safe
manner if the business process (BP) to be supported is well-structured and there is no need …

A workflow system, in its general form, is basically a heterogeneous and distributed
information system where the tasks are performed using autonomous systems. Resources …

An organization produces value for its customers by executing various business processes.
Due to complexity and variety of business processes, contemporary organizations use …

In recent years, numerous transaction models have been proposed to address the problems
posed by advanced database applications, but only a few of these models are being used in …

Based on the results of the study carried out in 1996 to investigate the state of the art of
workflow and process technology, MCC initiated the Collaboration Management …

The basic transaction model has evolved over time to incorporate more complex transaction
structures and to selectively modify the atomicity and isolation properties. In this chapter we …

Key to broad use of process management systems (PrMS) in practice is their ability to foster
and ease the implementation, execution, monitoring, and adaptation of business processes …

Abstract WC propose Concurrent Transaction Logic (C7X) as the language for specifying,
analyzing, and scheduling of workflows. We show that both local and global properties of …