@Article{muth98a,
  author =	 {Peter Muth and Dirk Wodtke and Jeanine Weissenfels
                  and Angelika Kotz Dittrich and Gerhard Weikum},
  title =	 {From Centralized Workflow Specification to
                  Distributed Workflow Execution},
  journal =	 {Journal of Intelligent Information Systems},
  volume =	 10,
  number =	 2,
  year =	 1998,
  issn =	 {0925-9902},
  pages =	 {159--184},
  doi =		 {10.1023/A:1008608810770},
  publisher =	 {Kluwer Academic Publishers},
  address =	 {Hingham, MA, USA},
  abstract = 	 {Current workflow management systems fall short of
                  supporting large-scale distributed, enterprise-wide
                  applications. We present a scalable, rigorously
                  founded approach to enterprise-wide workflow
                  management, based on the distributed execution of
                  state and activity charts. By exploiting the formal
                  semantics of state and activity charts, we develop
                  an algorithm for transforming a centralized state
                  and activity chart into a provably equivalent
                  partitioned one, suitable for distributed
                  execution. A synchronization scheme is developed
                  that guarantees an execution equivalent to a
                  non-distributed one. This basic solution is further
                  refined in order to reduce communication overhead
                  and exploit parallelism between partitions whenever
                  possible. The developed synchronization schemes are
                  compared in terms of the number and size of
                  synchronization messages},
  keywords =     {multiagent workflow},
  url = 	 {http://jmvidal.cse.sc.edu/library/muth98a.pdf},
  googleid = 	 {9PUeRI_BElEJ:scholar.google.com/},
  cluster = 	 {5841944487720318452},
}