Load balancing in distributed workflow management system

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 522-530

  Jin, Li Jie ^a   Casati, Fabio ^a   Sayal, Mehmet ^a   Shan, Ming Chien ^a  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Business process; Load balancing; Load index; Workflow

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER COMPUTING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; ROUTERS; SCALABILITY; SCHEDULING; SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS; WORK SIMPLIFICATION;

BUSINESS PROCESS; CHANGING BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT; DISTRIBUTED WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; LOAD INDEX; RESOURCE CAPABILITIES; ROUND-ROBIN SCHEDULING; WORKFLOW; WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS;

COMPETITION;

EID: 33845912389     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/372202.372452     Document Type: Conference Paper

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