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Internet Workflow Management
Contributor(s): Marinescu, Dan C. (Author)
ISBN: 0471439622     ISBN-13: 9780471439622
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
OUR PRICE:   $170.95  
Product Type: Hardcover
Published: April 2002
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Annotation: Today, an ever-expanding set of human activities, ranging from business processes to healthcare to education and research, is dependent upon the Internet. Most processes involve a workflow, the coordinated execution of multiple activities. In a given application, once the key stages of the workflow have been isolated, an infrastructure to coordinate the handling of individual cases is necessary.

Internet-Based Workflow Management shows how to understand, develop, and use societal services for process coordination in an information grid with a rich set of hardware and software resources. In such a semantic web, individual services offered by autonomous service providers can be composed to perform the complex tasks involved in emerging new applications.

The book is designed to be accessible to IT practitioners and researchers as well as to those without formal training in computer science. Businesspeople, scientists, engineers, or anyone else involved in the development of Internet-centric applications will find the book an invaluable resource. The coverage includes:

  • Workflow management
  • Distributed systems
  • Modeling of distributed systems and workflows
  • Networking
  • Quality of service
  • Open systems
  • Software agents
  • Knowledge management
  • Planning

In the final chapter of the book, Dan Marinescu brings together all these elements in a case study that shows the step-by-step development of middleware for process coordination. This middleware is available under an open source license at www.wiley.com.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Computers | Software Development & Engineering - General
- Computers | Internet - General
- Business & Economics | Management - General
Dewey: 658.054
LCCN: 2002510755
Series: Wiley Series on Parallel and Distributed Computing
Physical Information: 1.37" H x 6.24" W x 9.58" (2.23 lbs) 656 pages
 
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Workflow-Management im Internet: Hier wird dieses Thema erstmals umfassend abgehandelt! Mit einer gelungenen Mischung aus theoretischen und praktischen Aspekten erläutert Ihnen der Autor, in welche Schritte sich internetbasierte Geschäftsabläufe aufteilen lassen und wie man jeden Schritt in der Praxis beherrscht. Netzwerkmodellierung, Scheduling, verteilte Systeme, künstliche Intelligenz, Softwareagenten und Java sind nur einige Stichworte aus dem breiten Themenspektrum. Vom zugehörigen ftp-Server können Sie einschlägige Anwendungen herunterladen.