Performance and Availability Assessment for the Configuration of Distributed Workflow Management Systems

摘要

Workflow management systems (WFMSs) that are geared for the orchestration of enterprise-wide or even "virtual-enterprise" -style business processes across multiple organizations are complex distributed systems. They consist of multiple workflow engines, application servers, and ORB-style communication servers. Thus, deriving a suitable configuration of an entire distributed WFMS for a given application workload is a difficult task.