Case handling: A new paradigm for business process support

Data and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 129-162

  Van Der Aalst, Wil M P ^a   Weske, Mathias ^b   Grünbauer, Dolf ^c  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c NL 7300 AS Apeldoorn Netherlands   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive workflow; Business process management; Case handling; Flexibility; Workflow management systems

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE WORKFLOW; BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT; CASE HANDLING; FLEXIBILITY; WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; DATA REDUCTION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROCESS CONTROL; PROCESS ENGINEERING;

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

EID: 11144308857     PISSN: 0169023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.datak.2004.07.003     Document Type: Article

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