Exception handling for conflict resolution in cross-organizational workflows

Distributed and Parallel Databases

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 271-306

  Luo, Zongwei ^a,b   Sheth, Amit ^a   Kochut, Krys ^a   Arpinar, Budak ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross organizational business process; Responsibility based exception handling; Workflow management systems

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUALITY OF SERVICE; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; TELECOMMUNICATION INDUSTRY;

CROSS ORGANIZATIONAL BUSINESS PROCESS; EXCEPTION HANDLING; WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS;

DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0037403471     PISSN: 09268782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022827610371     Document Type: Article

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