This paper presents a survey of relevant transactional and recovery issues for the development of processes that are composed of web services in a service-oriented architecture (SOA). A process in an SOA is not a traditional ACID transaction due to the loosely-coupled, autonomous, and heterogeneous nature of the execution environment. As a result, processes that are composed of web services can...

Key-value based data storage systems such as HBase and Bigtable provide high scalability and availability compared to traditional relational databases. However, unlike relational databases, the existing key-value stores provide only limited transactional functionality, such as single-row transactions. In this paper, we address the problem of building scalable transaction management mechanisms f...

With the growing utility of blockchain technology, desire for reciprocal interactions among different blockchains is growing. However, most operational networks currently operate in a standalone setting. This fragmentation form isolated creates interoperability difficulties, inhibiting adoption various ecosystems. Interoperability key factor healthcare domain sharing EHRs patients registered in...

Control and data flow aspects of a distributed system can be identified through the analysis of control and data dependencies that exist not only within processes, but also across process boundaries. This paper proposes a non-interleaving model that exposes the intra-process as well as inter-process control and data dependencies in a specification of a distributed system given in SDL. The model...

This study suggests how an order-receiving company can avoid disclosing schedule information on unit tasks to the order-placing company when carrying out a collaborative project on the value chain in an order-oriented industry. Specifically, it suggests methods for keeping schedule information confidential, and categorizes potential situations by inter-task dependency. Lastly, an approach to se...

We propose and demonstrate the feasibility of a framework for document-driven workflow systems that requires no explicit control flow and the execution of the process is driven by input documents. The framework can assist workflow designers to discover the data dependencies between tasks in a process and achieve more efficient control flow design. The framework also provides an architecture to ...

Offering a Product-Service System (PSS) is a well-accepted strategy that companies may adopt to provide a set of systemic solutions to customers. PSSs were initially provided in a simple form but now take diversified and complex forms involving multiple services, products and technologies. With the growing interest in the PSS, frameworks for the PSS development have been introduced by many rese...