SwinDeW—A P2P-based decentralized workflow management system

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A: Systems and Humans

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 922-935

  Yan, Jun ^a   Yang, Yun ^b   Raikundalia, Gitesh K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coordination; decentralization; peer to peer (p2p); workflow management

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008022307     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: 15582426     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2005.855789     Document Type: Article

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