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Towards a visual definition of a process in a distributed environment. (English) Zbl 1188.68077

Badica, Costin (ed.) et al., Intelligent distributed computing, systems and applications. Proceedings of the 2nd international symposium on intelligent distributed computing – IDC 2008, Catania, Italy, 2008. Berlin: Springer (ISBN 978-3-540-85256-8/hbk). Studies in Computational Intelligence 162, 287-292 (2008).
Summary: Workers, Inc., a workflow management system implemented using the technology of mobile agents, is especially suited for highly distributed and heterogeneous environments. This paper discusses the issues related to visual definitions of new processes, and their translation into execution contexts of the system.
For the entire collection see [Zbl 1154.68305].

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68M14 Distributed systems
68T05 Learning and adaptive systems in artificial intelligence
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