2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/32666This paper introduces a new mechanism for specifying constraints in distributed workflows. By introducing constraints in a contextual form, it is shown how different people and groups within collaborative communities can cooperatively constrain workflows. A comparison with existing state-of-the-art workflow systems is made. These ideas are explored in practice with an illustrative example from High Energy Physics.19 pages, 5 figures; Submitted to Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience for the Special Issue on Workflows at GGF10, cpe859Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster ComputingD.1.3; D.2.12text