Workflow Management in the Internet Age

Dr. C. Mohan joined the IBM Almaden Research Center as a Research Staff Member in 1981. In June 1997, Mohan was named an IBM Fellow for being recognized worldwide as a leading innovator in transaction management. He received the ACM SIGMOD Innovations Award in 1996 in recognition of his innovative contributions to the development and use of database systems. In 1992, he was elected to the IBM Academy of Technology. Mohan is the founding leader of the Dominotes project which resulted in the enhancement of Domino/Notes's scalability by the introduction of transactional recovery in R5. Prior to this, Mohan led the Exotica project which was focussed on the IBM workflow product FlowMark, the IBM messaging product MQSeries and the Lotus groupware product Notes. Mohan was a designer/implementor of the R* distributed DBMS, the Starburst extensible DBMS and DB2. He is the primary inventor of the ARIES family of recovery and locking methods, and the Presumed Abort commit protocol. He has had major impact on IBM and non-IBM prototypes and products. Mohan's research results and designs have been incorporated in the IBM products DB2/MVS, DB2 Common Server (DB2/6000, DB2/NT, ....), MQSeries, S/390 Parallel Sysplex Coupling Facility, AdStar Distributed Storage Manager (ADSM), SQL/DS and VM Shared File System, in the IBM prototypes R*, Starburst and QuickSilver, and in IBM's SNA LU6.2 and DRDA. Mohan is a consultant to IBM's database, transaction and workflow product groups.