Guest Editors' Introduction to the Special Section on Scientific Workflows Bertram Ludäscher and Carole Goble   View Paper (PDF)   Return to September 2005, Volume 34, Number 3 Abstract Business-oriented workflows have been studied since the 70's under various names (office automation, workflow management, business process management) and by different communities, including the database community. Much basic and applied research has been conducted over the years, e.g. theoretical studies of workflow languages and models (based on Petri-nets or process calculi), their properties, transactional behavior, etc. ©2006 Association for Computing Machinery