Efficient distributed workflow management based on variable server assignments

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1789, Issue , 2000, Pages 94-109

  Bauer, Thomas ^a   Dadam, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; WORK SIMPLIFICATION;

BUILD TIME; COMMUNICATION LOAD; DISTRIBUTED WORKFLOW; RUN-TIME ANALYSIS; RUNTIMES; SERVER ASSIGNMENT; SUBNETS;

SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

EID: 84943273046     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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