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We present two models for data-centric workflows: the first based on business artifacts and the second on Active XML. We then compare the two models and argue that Active XML is strictly more expressive, based on a natural semantics and choice of observables. Finally, we mention several verification results for the two models.
This work has been partially funded by the European Research Council under the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) / ERC grant Webdam, agreement 226513. http://webdam.inria.fr/
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Abiteboul, S., Vianu, V. (2013). Models for Data-Centric Workflows. In: Tannen, V., Wong, L., Libkin, L., Fan, W., Tan, WC., Fourman, M. (eds) In Search of Elegance in the Theory and Practice of Computation. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8000. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41660-6_1
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