From centralized workflow specification to distributed workflow execution

Journal of Intelligent Information Systems

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 159-184

  Muth, Peter ^a   Wodtke, Dirk ^a   Weissenfels, Jeanine ^a   Dittrich, Angelika Kotz ^b   Weikum, Gerhard ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Union Bank of Switzerland   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Communication costs; Distributed execution; Enterprise wide workflows; Synchronization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COSTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; SYNCHRONIZATION; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

COMMUNICATION COSTS; DISTRIBUTED EXECUTION; ENTERPRISE-WIDE WORKFLOWS; WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS (WFMS);

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032024371     PISSN: 09259902     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008608810770     Document Type: Article

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