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e_SWDL : An XML Based Workflow Definition Language for Complicated Applications in Web Environments

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Web Technologies and Applications (APWeb 2003)

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e_SWDL is the workflow definition language of a prototype WfMS-e_ScopeWork, which is designed to support complex cross-enterprises workflow applications among heterogeneous sites by using XML approach. On this basis, e_SWDL follows WfMC’s XML-based process definition language standard (XPDL), and makes necessary extensions for semantics-rich modeling ability in three major aspects: (1) the complicated transitions between tasks for workflow process modeling; (2) the workflow relevant data and workflow environment data for data modeling; and (3) the role, participant and participant group for organization modeling. Furthermore, Compensation entities (CDSet) are provided for failure handling of distributed workflow scheduling, and Concurrency entities (ConSet) are provided for correctness of concurrent workflow concurrency execution. e_SWDL provides strong modeling ability for complicated workflow logic and suits distributed and heterogeneous Web environments.

This work is supported by the National 863 High-tech Program (2001AA415210), the Foundation for University Key Teacher and the Teaching and Research Award Program for Outstanding Young Teachers in High Education Institutions of the Ministry of Education

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China, 110004

    Wei Ge, Baoyan Song, Derong Shen & Ge Yu

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  1. School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, 4072, Australia

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  2. Department of Mathematics and Computing, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, QLD, 4350, Australia

    Yanchun Zhang

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Ge, W., Song, B., Shen, D., Yu, G. (2003). e_SWDL : An XML Based Workflow Definition Language for Complicated Applications in Web Environments. In: Zhou, X., Orlowska, M.E., Zhang, Y. (eds) Web Technologies and Applications. APWeb 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2642. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36901-5_48

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