A distributed server architecture supporting dynamic resource provisioning for BPM-oriented workflow management systems

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 83, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1538-1552

  Tsai, Ching Hong ^a   Huang, Kuo Chan ^b   Wang, Feng Jian ^a   Chen, Chun Hao ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAICHUNG UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Business process management; Dynamic resource provisioning; Workflow management system

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT; CLIENT/SERVER ARCHITECTURE; COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE; COMPUTING RESOURCE; DISTRIBUTED SERVER ARCHITECTURE; DISTRIBUTED WORKFLOW; DYNAMIC RESOURCE PROVISIONING; MANAGEMENT SERVERS; PARALLEL SERVERS; PERFORMANCE BOTTLENECKS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS; PROPOSED ARCHITECTURES; PROTOTYPE SYSTEM; RESPONSE TIME; SCALABLE PERFORMANCE; WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS;

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; SERVERS; TIME VARYING SYSTEMS; WORK SIMPLIFICATION;

RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS);

EID: 77953138787     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2010.04.001     Document Type: Article

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