Technical research is focused on finding technical primitives to support workflows. EvE follows a purely event based approach. Finally , ECA rules are used by several WFMS for workflow execution. The workflow engine is mostly realized using a centralized active database.
Technical research is focused on finding technical primitives to support workflows.
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