Distribution and Questionnaire

Hello,
We are the students of the University of Dortmund (Germany). We write are at present our thesis (diploma) which is concerned with the distributed workflow management systems.
For an evaluation of the concepts we prepared a questionnaire which we send you with this email.
We would be very grateful if you became to answer the questionnaire as in detail as possible.
Thank you in advance
Yours sincerely
Alireza Salemi
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Questionnaire:
Timo Albert,Alireza Salemi
Question catalog for the workflow management systems
1 The product
In this range you should declare general information of your product.
Product name : Oracle Workflow
Version
Customer audience
Application area
Prominent features
2 Distribution
The focus of our thesis is on concepts and technologies with whose the distribution of workflow instances are realized.
Question 1:      Does your product realize a kind of the distribution?
     â¢     No, it concerns a central solution (uses one extremely more efficiently workflow server).
     â¢     Yes, the product realizes a distribution model.
Question 2:      Which distribution model is used with your product?
     â¢     Several servers with certain selection strategy:
          o     Based on Workload
          o     Firm sequence
          o     On Basis of the editor (processor) for the activities of the workflow
     â¢     Distributed servers with decentralized processing
Question 3:      Describe the communication protocols which are offered (Peer to Peer, mediator oriented).
Question 4:      Describe the cooperation protocols which are offered (Master and slave relation, delegation, peer to peer). How is reliable communication guaranteed (e.g. transactional persistent queues)?
Question 5:      How the necessary data for the control flow and data flow are made available? (e.g. remote procedure calls (RPC) or replication mechanism)
Question 6:      How does the status monitoring of the workflows take place (central / decentral) ?
Question 7:      Which mechanisms are used to guarantee an appropriate scalability? Is this taken over by the assigned (used) framework (e.g. application server) or by the workflow management system?
Question 8:      How is the system secured against failure? With which means is the fast restart reached after a fault? (recovery mechanism)
Question 9:      Which transaction concepts are used in the range of the data management?
Question 10:      Which compensation mechanisms are supported?
Question 11:      Which concepts are offered for the reduction of the communication volumes?
Question 12:      Does the system support protocols/standards to interoperability with the third provider? (e.g. interface of the workflow management coalition)
Question 13:      Do you use web services in your system? If yes, in which range or area?

hi,
in distribution the original primary costs are sent from the sender to the receiver. thus the original costs can be seen in the receiving cost centre.
in assessment the primary costs are assigned to a secondary cost element in an Allocation structure and the secondary cost elements are seen in the receiving cost centre
assign points if useful.
regards

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regards

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