Internet-Based Workflow Management: Toward a Semantic Web

by Dan C. Marinescu

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780471439622
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	04/24/2002
Series:	Wiley Series on Parallel and Distributed Computing , #18
Pages:	656
Product dimensions:	6.46(w) x 9.47(h) x 1.35(d)

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.

Table of Contents

Preface.

Acronyms.

Internet-Based Workflows.

Basic Concepts and Models.

Net Models of Distributed Systems and Workflows.

Internet Quality of Service.

From Ubiquitous Internet Services to Open Systems.

Coordination and Software Agents.

Knowledge Representation, Inference, and Planning.

Middleware for Process Coordination: A Case Study.

Glossary.

Index.

Editorial Reviews

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. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)