Databases and Workflow Management: What is it All About?

Summary: Positions workflow management as distinct from messaging and transaction systems, centered on coordinating long-lived, dependent activities. Highlights database challenges: durable workflow state, failure recovery, lock-free cross-transaction consistency, and stable/recoverable events. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: h8c55d6a4413d92ff
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1995
Pagerank: 5.0806471e-05
Overall Rank: 10,091 | 32.16%
DOI: -

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@article{paper8486_vldb95,
        title = {{Databases and Workflow Management: What is it All About?}},
        author = {},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '95},
        pages = {632},
        year = {1995}
}

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,711	Foundations of Data-Aware Process Analysis: A Database Theory Perspective	2013	PODS	8.1038896e-05

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