The AXML Artifact Model

Towards a data-centric workflow approach, we introduce an artifact model to capture data and workflow management activities in distributed settings. The model is built on Active XML, i. e. , XML trees including Web service calls. We argue that the model captures the essential features of business artifacts as described informally in [A. Nigam and N. Caswell (2003)] or discussed in [R. Hull (2008)]. To illustrate, we briefly consider the monitoring of distributed systems and the verification of temporal properties for them.

Authors

• Serge Abiteboul
• Pierre Bourhis
• Alban Galland
• Bogdan Marinoiu

Keywords

• XML
• Monitoring
• Logic
• Web services
• History
• Manufacturing systems
• Humans
• Spatial databases
• Database systems
• Control systems
• Web Server
• Calls For Service
• Rest Of The World
• Access Control
• Hibernation
• Stream Processing
• Free Variables
• Function Calls
• Running Example
• Internet Shopping
• Workflow Systems
• Scientific Workflow
• database
• workflow
• artifact
• documents