Workflow Automation: Overview and Research Issues

Information Systems Frontiers

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 281-296

  Stohr, Edward A ^a,c   Zhao, J Leon ^b  

^a STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Research issues; Workflow management systems; Workflow overview

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035627978     PISSN: 13873326     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1011457324641     Document Type: Article

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