Using patterns to design rules in workflows

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 760-785

  Casati, Fabio ^a,c   Castano, Silvana ^a   Fugini, Mariagrazia ^b   Mirbel, Isabelle ^c   Pernici, Barbara ^c  

^a IEEE

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EXCEPTION HANDLING; PATTERN CATALOGS; WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS (WFMS);

FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0034244976     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/32.879813     Document Type: Article

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