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The MENTOR workbench for enterprise-wide workflow management

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Dirk Wodtke,

Jeanine Weissenfels,

Gerhard Weikum,

Angelika Kotz Dittrich,

Peter MuthAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGMOD Record, Volume 26, Issue 2

Pages 576 - 579

https://doi.org/10.1145/253262.253411

Published: 01 June 1997 Publication History

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MENTOR (“Middleware for Enterprise-Wide Workflow Management”) is a joint project of the University of the Saarland, the Union Bank of Switzerland, and ETH Zurich [1, 2, 3]. The focus of the project is on enterprise-wide workflow management. Workflows in this category may span multiple organizational units each unit having its own workflow server, involve a variety of heterogeneous information systems, and require many thousands of clients to interact with the workflow management system (WFMS). The project aims to develop a scalable and highly available environment for the execution and monitoring of workflows, seamlessly integrated with a specification and verification environment.

For the specification of workflows, MENTOR utilizes the formalism of state and activity charts. The mathematical rigor of the specification method establishes a basis for both correctness reasoning and for partitioning of a large workflow into a number of subworkflows according to the organizational responsibilities of the enterprise. For the distributed execution of the partitioned workflow specification, MENTOR relies mostly on standard middleware components and adds own components only where the standard components fall short of functionality or scalability. In particular, the run-time environment is based on a TP monitor and a CORBA implementation.

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ACM SIGMOD Record Volume 26, Issue 2

June 1997

583 pages

ISSN:0163-5808

DOI:10.1145/253262

Chairman:
Sudha Ram
Univ. of Arizona, Tucson
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Univ. of Rhode Island, Kingston

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SIGMOD '97: Proceedings of the 1997 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
June 1997
594 pages
ISBN:0897919114
DOI:10.1145/253260
Editors:
Joan M. Peckman
Univ. of Rhode Island, Kingston
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Sudha Ram
Univ. of Arizona, Tucson
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Michael Franklin

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