Inheritance of business processes: A journey visiting four notorious problems

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2472, Issue , 2003, Pages 383-408

  Van Der Aalst, W M P ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 0348155842     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-40022-6_19     Document Type: Article

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