Dynamic change of server assignments in distributed workflow management systems

ICEIS 2004 - Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 91-98

  Bauer, Thomas ^a   Reichert, Manfred ^b  

^a DAIMLER AG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Distributed workflow management; Dynamic server assignment; Scalability; Workflow management system

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING; CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SCIENCE; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; SERVERS; SUPERVISORY AND EXECUTIVE PROGRAMS;

DISTRIBUTED WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT; DYNAMIC SERVER ASSIGNMENT; NETWORK TOPOLGY; WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS (WFMS);

MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 8444245223     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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