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Towards a Visual Definition of a Process in a Distributed Environment

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Intelligent Distributed Computing, Systems and Applications

Part of the book series: Studies in Computational Intelligence ((SCI,volume 162))

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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.

This work was supported by project “Abstract Methods and Applications in Computer Science” (no. 144017A), of the Serbian Ministry of Science and Environmental Protection.

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  1. Department of Mathematics and Informatics, Faculty of Science, University of Novi Sad, Trg Dositeja Obradovića 4, 21000, Novi Sad, Serbia

    Dragoslav Pešović, Zoran Budimac & Mirjana Ivanović

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Costin Badica Giuseppe Mangioni Vincenza Carchiolo Dumitru Dan Burdescu

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Pešović, D., Budimac, Z., Ivanović, M. (2008). Towards a Visual Definition of a Process in a Distributed Environment. In: Badica, C., Mangioni, G., Carchiolo, V., Burdescu, D.D. (eds) Intelligent Distributed Computing, Systems and Applications. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 162. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85257-5_32

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