Communicative action-based business process and information systems modelling with DEMO

Information Systems Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 117-138

  Van Reijswoud, Victor E ^a   Mulder, Hans B F ^b   Dietz, Jan L G ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b VIAgroep nv   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Business analysis; Business process redesign re engineering; Communicative action based modelling; Information systems design; Speech acts

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346097090     PISSN: 13501917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2575.1999.00055.x     Document Type: Article

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