Market-based workflow management

International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 297-314

  Geppert, Andreas ^a   Kradolfer, Markus ^b   Tombros, Dimitrios ^b  

^a IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Agoric open systems; Electronic markets; Workflow management; Workflow system calibration

Indexed keywords

EID: 0003365658     PISSN: 02188430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218843098000143     Document Type: Article

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