Extensions of the traditional atomic transaction model are needed to support the development of multi-system applications or work ows that access heterogeneous databases and legac...
Paul C. Attie, Munindar P. Singh, Amit P. Sheth, M...
Workflow technology has met with success in a variety of industries, although several limitations have emerged. One such drawback is the inflexibility of specification languages, ...
Belinda M. Carter, Joe Y.-C. Lin, Maria E. Orlowsk...
This paper describes the design of a scripting language aimed at expressing task (unit of computation) composition and inter-task dependencies of distributed applications whose ex...
Many organizations specify information release policies to describe the terms under which sensitive information may be released to other organizations. This paper presents a new a...
Software components promise easy reuse, dependability, and simplified development. Problems arise when implicit assumptions about the use of the component are encoded in the imple...