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: 2978
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1996
Pagerank: 5.9425753e-05
Overall Rank: 6,236 | 57.22%
DOI: 10.1145/233269.280350

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. C. Mohan (IBM)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{mohan_sigmod96,
        title = {{State of the Art in Workflow Management Research and Products}},
        author = {Mohan, C.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '96},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/233269.280350},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/233269.280350},
        year = {1996}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
12,964	The MENTOR Workbench for Enterprise-wide Workflow Management	1997	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 0 of 0 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank

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