Flexible workflow management in the OPENflow system

Proceedings - 5th IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference

Volumn 2001-January, Issue January, 2001, Pages 82-92

  Halliday, J J ^a   Shrivastava, S K ^b   Wheater, S M ^a,b  

^a HP Arjuna Labs   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DYNAMIC MODELS;

ATOMIC TRANSACTION; BUSINESS PROCESS; DISTRIBUTED WORKFLOW SYSTEMS; DYNAMIC RE-CONFIGURATION; FLEXIBLE WORKFLOWS; WORK-FLOW SYSTEMS; WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; WORKFLOW PROCESS;

WORK SIMPLIFICATION;

EID: 84936863640     PISSN: 15417719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EDOC.2001.950425     Document Type: Conference Paper

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