Benchmarking and Configuration of Workflow Management Systems
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Auteurs : Michael Gillmann ; Ralf Mindermann ; Gerhard WeikumSource :
- Lecture Notes in Computer Science [ 0302-9743 ] ; 2000.
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- Teeft :
- Activity charts, Application programs, Application server, Application servers, Arrival rate, Baseline experiment, Benchmark, Benchmark specification, Benchmarking, Business processes, Communication manager, Conf, Control flow, Credit card, Data engineering, Database, Database technology, External application, External applications, Gillmann, Interactive activities, Invocation, Prototype system, Queue, Server, Specification, State chart, State charts, System configuration, Throughput, Turnaround, Turnaround time, Various components, Weikum, Wfms, Wfms architectures, Wfmss, Workflow, Workflow engine, Workflow execution, Workflow instance, Workflow instances, Workflow management, Workflow management systems, Workflow server, Workflow specifications.
Abstract
Abstract: Workflow management systems (WFMS) are a cornerstone of mission-criticial, possibly cross-organizational business processes. For large-scale applications both their performance and availability are crucial factors, and the system needs to be properly configured to meet the application demands. Despite ample work on scalable system architectures for workflow management, the literature has neglected the important issues of how to systematically measure the performance of a given system configuration and how to determine viable configurations without resorting to expensive trial-and-error or guesswork. This paper proposes a synthetic benchmark for workflow management systems; based on the TPC-C order-entry benchmark, a complete e-commerce workflow is specified in a system-independent form. This workflow benchmark, which stresses all major components of a workflow system and is parameterized in a flexible manner, has been applied to two operational systems, the commercial system Staffware97 and our own prototype system Mentor-lite. The paper reports performance results from our measurements and discusses lessons learned. In particular, the results demonstrate the scalability of the Mentor-lite architecture. The measurements also underline the need for configuring systems intelligently, and the paper outlines an auto-configuration tool that we have been building to this end.
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DOI: 10.1007/10722620_19
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