State of the Art in Workflow Management Research and Products

Summary: State-of-the-art survey of workflow management research and products, spanning DBMS, distributed systems, transactions, mobile computing, and legacy-new integration. Highlights standardization by the Workflow Management Coalition and gaps where real-world problems outpace research. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2917
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1996
Pagerank: 6.0346122e-05
Overall Rank: 6,139 | 57.34%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. C. Mohan

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
12,779	The MENTOR Workbench for Enterprise-wide Workflow Management	1997	SIGMOD	5.1725247e-05

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