Object-oriented design of a flexible workflow management system

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1475, Issue , 1998, Pages 119-130

  Weske, Mathias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Distributed workflow executions; Flexible workflow management; Object modeling; Workflow management system design

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750006657     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/BFb0057722     Document Type: Conference Paper

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