Advanced Petri Nets for modelling mobile agent enabled interorganizational workflows

Proceedings - 9th Annual IEEE International Conference and Workshop on the Engineering of Computer-Based Systems, ECBS 2002

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 245-252

  Ling, Sea ^a   Loke, Seng Wai ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Databases; Electrical capacitance tomography; Mobile agents; Petri nets; Software performance; Wrapping

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; PACKAGING; PETRI NETS; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

AUSTRALIA; ELECTRICAL CAPACITANCE TOMOGRAPHY; INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL WORKFLOW; INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL WORKFLOWS; MOBILE COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT; PETRI-NET TECHNIQUE; SOFTWARE PERFORMANCE; VERIFICATION METHOD;

MOBILE AGENTS;

EID: 39449133682     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ECBS.2002.999846     Document Type: Conference Paper

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