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Internet Based Workflow Management: Towards a Semantic Web

   by Dan C. Marinescu / Dan C. Marinescu

  Hardcover:
    Wiley-Interscience
    05 April, 2002

   US$78.29 

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Editorial description(s):

From Book News, Inc.
Explores the infrastructure of Internet-based workflows for business people and engineers involved in software research and development. Marinescu (University of Central Florida) overviews the basic concepts behind distributed systems that communicate over the Internet and workflow management based on software agents. Models of communication and computing systems, Internet quality of service, open systems built around the Internet, and the role of middleware for coordination of complex tasks are described. The final chapter presents two applications of the message-oriented distributed object system and the component-based architecture for building agents.Copyright © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


Book Info
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. Designed to be accessible to IT practitioners and researchers as well as to those without formal training in computer science.


From the Back Cover
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:

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.


About the Author
DAN C. MARINESCU joined the Computer Science Department at the University of Central Florida in August 2001. Since 1984 he has been Associate and then Full Professor with the Computer Sciences Department at Purdue University, in West Lafayette, Indiana. He is conducting research in parallel and distributed systems, computational biology, ubiquitous computing and Petri nets and has published more than 130 papers in journals and refereed conference proceedings in these areas.


Book Description
Internet-based business transactions can be broken down into a series of independent steps. This workflow often involves tools from an array of fields, such as network modeling, scheduling, distributed systems, artificial intelligence, software agents, and Java. This book serves as a single, comprehensive resource for IT practitioners and students that covers all these vital aspects of workflow management.




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