Dynamic Restructuring of Transactional Workflow Activities: A Practical Implementation Method

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn 1998-January, Issue , 1998, Pages 378-385

  Zhou, Tong ^a   Pu, Calton ^a   Liu, Ling ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY DYNAMICS; AM GENERALS; MICROPROTOCOLS; PRACTICAL METHOD; PRODUCTION SYSTEM; SPECIALISATION; SYSTEM COMPONENTS; TRANSACTION PROCESSING; TRANSACTIONAL WORKFLOWS; WORK-FLOWS;

EID: 0345041136     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/288627.288683     Document Type: Conference Paper

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