Multicasts are a powerful means to implement coordinated operations on distributed data-sets as well as synchronized reductions of multiple computed results. In this paper we prese...
Van der Aalst recently proposed a set of workflow patterns to characterize the kinds of control flow that appear frequently in workflow processes. These patterns are useful for eva...
William R. Cook, Sourabh Patwardhan, Jayadev Misra
As the Internet, intranets and other wide-area open networks grow, novel techniques for building distributed systems, notably mobile agents, are attracting increasing attention. T...
Nobukazu Yoshioka, Shinichi Honiden, Anthony Finke...