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                <p>The WfCommons JSON Format</p>
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            WfCommons uses a <strong>common format</strong> for representing workflow execution instances and generated
            synthetic workflows instances, so that workflow simulators and simulation frameworks (that provide support for
            <span class="wfformat">WfFormat</span>) can use such instances interchangeably.
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            This common format uses a JSON specification available in the <a
                href="https://github.com/wfcommons/wfformat" target="_blank">WfFormat GitHub</a>
            repository. The schema GitHub repository provides detailed explanation of <span
                class="wfformat">WfFormat</span> (including required fields), and a validator script for verifying the
            compatibility of instances.
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            Below, is a visualization of the schema version <code>1.3</code>:
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