A document-driven agent-based approach for business processes management

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 373-382

  Kuo, Jong Yih ^a  

^a FU JEN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Business process management; Document driven approach; Mobile agent

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS; INTERNET; MOBILE COMPUTING; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT; DOCUMENT-DRIVEN AGENT BASED (DAB) APPROACH; MOBILE AGENTS;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

EID: 1442334888     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2003.08.002     Document Type: Article

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