TAM: A System for Dynamic Transactional Activity Management

摘要

Electronic commerce (EC) has remarkably reshaped today's business practices. The logic embedded in business transactions are becoming more flexible and sophisticated; the number of components within these business transactions are fastly increasing; and business transactions are getting more distributed and interactive as well. These, on the other hand, make today's business applications more vulnerable to resource availability constraints and consistency problems due to failures. For example, network congestion, server overload, user absence, and other exceptions all might cause temporary or permanent bottlenecks to ongoing business workflows. Developing system support to make workflow activities more reliable, efficient, and adaptive to changes or exception therefore poses important yet challenging questions that call for practical solutions.