Integrated process modeling: An ontological evaluation

Information Systems

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 73-87

  Green, Peter ^a   Rosemann, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Architecture of Integrated Information Systems; Ontology; Process Modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002253512     PISSN: 03064379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4379(00)00010-7     Document Type: Article

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