Transactional Workflows in Distributed Systems

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Rusinkiewicz, Marek | Bregolin, Mauro

Affiliations: Univ. of Houston, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Houston, TX 77204-3475, USA. marek@cs.uh.edu or mauro@cs.uh.edu

Note: [] This work was supported, in part, by the Texas Advanced Research Program Grant number 3652008.

Abstract: 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 paper we discuss the application of transaction concepts to activities that involve coordinated execution of multiple tasks (possibly of different types) over different processing entities. Such applications are referred to as transactional workflows. We discuss some of the issues involved in specification and execution of such workflows.

DOI: 10.3233/FI-1997-303408

Journal: Fundamenta Informaticae, vol. 30, no. 3-4, pp. 325-344, 1997