Media360 workflow - Implementing a Workflow Engine Inside a Database

Summary: Implements a workflow engine entirely inside an object-relational DBMS, representing transitions as triggers and activity logic as database routines. A commercial Informix Media360 case study evaluates the resulting simpler, compact, data-local architecture and tradeoffs. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 8902
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2000
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Overall Rank: 14,163 | 3.17%
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Authors

1. Carsten Blecken (Informix)

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@article{blecken_vldb00,
        title = {{Media360 workflow - Implementing a Workflow Engine Inside a Database}},
        author = {Blecken, Carsten},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '00},
        pages = {692},
        year = {2000}
}

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