Object-oriented design of a flexible workflow management system;Objektorientierter entwurf eines flexiblen workflow-management-systems

Informatik - Forschung und Entwicklung

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 179-195

  Weske, Mathias ^a   Hündling, Jens ^a   Kuropka, Dominik ^a   Schuschel, Hilmar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dynamic changes; Flexible workflow management; Object modeling; System design; Workflow meta schema

Indexed keywords

EID: 10644251338     PISSN: 01783564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004500050112     Document Type: Article

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