Workflow Description Languages A workflow language formalism is a formalism expressing the causal/temporal dependencies among a number of tasks to execute. A workflow language is a particular XML notation representing the inter-task dependencies. A formalism can underpin different languages. 1.1 Workflow languages (scientific and industrial) - [AGWL] - [BPEL4WS] - [BPML] - [BPMN] - [DGL] - DPML [Discovery Process Markup Language] - [GJobDL] - [GSFL] - [GFDL] (Grid Flow Description Language) - [GWorkflowDL] (Grid Workflow Description Language) - [MoML] - [SWFL] - [WSCL] - [WSCI] (Web Service Choreography Interface) - [WSFL] - [WSL] (Workflow Specification Language of the [C3Grid] project) - [XLANG] - [YAWL] - [SCUFL]/[XScufl] - [WPDL] (Workflow Process Definition Language) - [PIF] (Process Interchange Framework) - [PSL] (Process Specification Language) - [OWL-S] - [XPDL] - [xWFL] 1.1 Workflow languages formalisms - [Petri net] - [UML activity diagram] - [BPMN] (Business Process Modeling Notation) - [DAG] - [IPO] (Input-Process-Output) - [GPSG] (Generalized Process Structure) - [Workflow Patterns] - [Pi Calculus] - [Finite-State Machine] - [Gamma-calculus] (Chemical workflow enactment) 1.1 Mapping abstract onto concrete workflows - [CWG] (Concrete Workflow Generator) - [ACWG] (Abstract and Concrete Workflow Generator) - [Grid Job Handler] - [GWES] (Grid Workflow Execution Service) 1.1 [Workflow Description Languages/Compatibility and Conversion] of different Grid workflow description languages The [CoreGRID] project established a research group with the objective of making a joint survey about compatibility and conversion (mapping) issues between commonly available workflow description languages. Further information is aviable at the snip [Workflow Description Languages/Compatibility and Conversion]. 1.1 [Workflow Description Languages/Links] {!Workflow Description Languages/Links} 1.1 References - {link:Workflow Management - State of the Art vs. State of the Practice|http://dps.uibk.ac.at/uploads/108/HPL-97-90.pdf} - {link:Grid Workflow|http://dps.uibk.ac.at/uploads/101/draft-bivens-grid-workflow.pdf} - {link:The Application of Petri Nets to Workflow Managament|http://dps.uibk.ac.at/uploads/103/vanderaalst98application.pdf} - {link:Mapping Abstract Complex Workflows onto Grid Environments|http://www.isi.edu/~blythe/papers/pdf/grid-journal03.pdf} - Grid Workflow: A Flexible Failure Handling Framework for the Grid (broken link) - {link:Workflow Terminology|http://dps.uibk.ac.at/uploads/110/TC-1011_term_glossary_v3.pdf} - {link:Web services composition standards evaluation|http://tmitwww.tm.tue.nl/research/patterns/download/ieeewebflow.pdf} - Workflow Tutorial by O.F. Rana {link:ppt (9MB)|space/Workflow+Description+Languages/Rana_2005_workflow-europar05.ppt}, {link:pdf (9MB)|space/Workflow+Description+Languages/Rana_2005_workflow-europar05.pdf} - http://ats.nist.gov/psl/xml/process-descriptions.html 2010-11-03 14:15:15.294 2005-03-09 13:45:03.486 Tue Aug 30 09:29:25 UTC 2005 Tue Aug 30 09:11:20 UTC 2005