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Design and Implementation of a Workflow Engine
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:Author: Sebastian Bergmann
:Date: 2007-09-25
:Link: http://sebastian-bergmann.de/publications/bergmann-WorkflowEngine-DiplomaThesis.pdf

This thesis discusses the design and implementation of a software component
that faciliates the specification, management, and execution of so-called
workflows. The discussion of this component's design includes the semantics
and syntax of the underlying workflow model as well as the actual software
design. The former builds upon the Workflow Patterns terminology, the
latter on the concepts of a Workflow Virtual Machine and the idea that a
workflow system should be comprised of loosely coupled components.