Type of Document Dissertation Author Balasooriya, Janaka Lalith Author's Email Address jbalasooriya@gmail.com URN etd-11302006-154217 Title DISTRIBUTED WEB SERVICE COORDINATION FOR COLLABORATIVE APPLICATIONS AND BIOLOGICAL WORKFLOWS Degree Ph.D. Department Computer Science Advisory Committee
Advisor Name Title Sushil K. Prasad Committee Chair Shamkant Navathe Committee Co-Chair Rajashekar Sunderraman Committee Member Yi Pan Committee Member Keywords
- Collaborative Applications
- Distributed Coordination
- Formal Workflow Models
- Expressiveness
- Biological Workflows
- Web Services
Date of Defense 2006-08-15 Availability unrestricted Abstract In this dissertation work, we have investigated the main research thrust of decentralized coordination of workflows over web services. To address distributed workflow coordination, first we have developed “Web Coordination Bonds” as a capable set of dependency modeling primitives that enable each web service to manage its own dependencies. Web bond primitives are as powerful as extended Petri nets and have sufficient modeling and expressive capabilities to model workflow dependencies. We have designed and prototyped our “Web Service Coordination Management Middleware” (WSCMM) system that enhances current web services infrastructure to accommodate web bond enabled web services. Finally, based on core concepts of web coordination bonds and WSCMM, we have developed the “BondFlow” system that allows easy configuration distributed coordination of workflows. The footprint of the BonFlow runtime is 24KB and the additional third party software packages, SOAP client and XML parser, account for 115KB.Files
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