Extension of activity diagrams for flexible business workflow modeling

Computer Systems Science and Engineering

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 137-152

  Guntama, E ^a   Chang, E ^a   Jayaratna, N ^a   Pudhota, Leo ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Actors; Dynamic workflow modeling; Extended activity diagram; Objects; Workflow; Worklet

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION LANGUAGES; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

ACTIVITY DIAGRAMS; UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE; WORKFLOW MODEL;

DATA FLOW ANALYSIS;

EID: 0141741549     PISSN: 02676192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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