A fully distributed architecture for large scale workflow enactment

International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 411-440

  Filho, Roberto Silveira Silva ^a   Wainer, Jacques ^b   Madeira, Edmundo R M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

CORBA workflow implementation; Fully distributed workflow architectures; Large scale workflow management systems; Mobile agents

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; CONTROL SYSTEMS; DATA TRANSFER; MIDDLEWARE; SERVERS; SYNCHRONIZATION;

MOBILE AGENTS; WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0346318602     PISSN: 02188430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218843003000802     Document Type: Article

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