Intra-subnet load balancing in distributed workflow management systems

International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 295-323

  Bauer, Thomas ^a   Reichert, Manfred ^b   Dadam, Peter ^b  

^a DAIMLER AG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Distributed workflow execution; Hashing; Load balancing; Scalability; Workflow management

Indexed keywords

CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; GRAPH THEORY; PROCESS ENGINEERING; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT;

MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0042318636     PISSN: 02188430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218843003000760     Document Type: Article

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