@techreport{TR-IC-03-07,
  number = {IC-03-07},
  author = {Gustavo Kasprzak and  M. Beatriz F. Toledo and Itana M. S. Gimenes},
  title = {A Synchronization Manager Component for Workflow Management Systems},
  month = {April},
  year = {2003}, 
  institution = {Institute of Computing, University of Campinas},
  note = {In English, 16 pages.
    \par\selectlanguage{english}\textbf{Abstract}
         Workflow Management Systems (WfMS) have been adopted as a
         practical solution to automate the execution of business
         processes in order to use resources efficiently and make
         organizations more competitive. Workflow activities usually
         have a very coarse granularity, are long-lived and business
         process dependent. The semantics of activities, including the
         semantics of associated invoked applications and resources,
         are not known by the WfMS. As a result, inconsistencies may
         arise from the concurrent use of shared
         applications/resources by the workflow activities. Thus, we
         propose a workflow activity synchronization mechanism to deal
         with these inconsistencies using a component-based
         solution. We present the specification of a software
         component called \textit{Synchronization Manager Component},
         a prototype implementation and a case study carried out
         within the context of the WorkToDo environment.
  }
}