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AICCSA
2008
IEEE
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13 years 10 months ago
Managing access and flow control requirements in distributed workflows
Abstract. Workflows are operational business processes. Workfow Management Systems (WFMS) are concerned with the control and coordination of these workflows. In recent years, there...
Samiha Ayed, Nora Cuppens-Boulahia, Fréd&ea...
ICDCS
2006
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
A Locality-Aware Cooperative Cache Management Protocol to Improve Network File System Performance
In a distributed environment the utilization of file buffer caches in different clients may vary greatly. Cooperative caching is used to increase cache utilization by coordinatin...
Song Jiang, Fabrizio Petrini, Xiaoning Ding, Xiaod...
CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Work coordination, workflow, and workarounds in a medical context
In this paper we report an ethnographic study of workarounds--informal temporary practices for handling exceptions to normal workflow--in a hospital environment. Workarounds are a...
Marina Kobayashi, Susan R. Fussell, Yan Xiao, F. J...
KI
1998
Springer
14 years 25 days ago
From Theory to Practice in Multiagent System Design: The Case of Structural Co-operation
Abstract. In Distributed Problem-solving (DPS) systems a group of purposefully designed computational agents interact and co-ordinate their activities so as to jointly achieve a gl...
Sascha Ossowski, Ana García-Serrano, Jos&ea...
COOPIS
1997
IEEE
14 years 6 days ago
Design and Implementation of a Distributed Workflow Enactment Service
Workflows are activities involving the coordinated execution of multiple tasks performed by different processing entities, mostly in distributed heterogeneous environments which a...
Esin Gokkoca, Mehmet Altinel, Ibrahim Cingil, Nesi...