Distribution models for workflow management systems - Classification and simulation;Verteilungsmodelle für workflow-management-systeme -Klassifikation und simulation

Informatik - Forschung und Entwicklung

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 203-217

  Bauer, Thomas ^a   Dadam, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Architectures; Distributed execution; Scalability; Simulation; Workflow management

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041435802     PISSN: 01783564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004500050138     Document Type: Article

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