Reflective infrastructure for workflow adaptability

Data and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 271-304

  Edmond, David ^a   Ter Hofstede, Arthur H M ^a,b  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b Software Engineering Research Centre   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA STRUCTURES; PROCESS ENGINEERING;

WORKFLOW SYSTEMS;

KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0034258915     PISSN: 0169023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-023X(00)00018-5     Document Type: Article

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