ICU/COWS: A distributed transactional workflow system supporting multiple workflow types

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E83-D, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 15141525-

  Han, Dongsoo ^a   Shim, Jaeyong ^a   Chansu, Y U ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Connector facility; Distributed workflow system; Execution object; Multiple workflow types

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746398923     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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