Adding Distribution to a Workflow Management System
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The Workflow Management System AltaVista Works has been extended to be able to process workflows in a distributed, partly even parallel manner. Build-time data are replicated over all participating workflow servers. The distribution of workflow execution is based on migration. Instead of the usual, static pre-partitioning, highly dynamic management of distribution is applied.
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