A Structured Approach to Designing Interleaved Workflow and Groupware Tasks

10th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 4074-4083

  Deokar, Amit V ^a   Briggs, Robert O ^b   Madhusudan, T ^a   Nunamaker, Jay F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b GroupSystemscom   (United States)

Author keywords

AI planning; Group systems; process definition; thinkLets; workflow systems

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; GROUPWARE; PRODUCT DESIGN; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT;

AI PLANNING; BUSINESS PROCESS; GROUP SYSTEMS; GROUPWARE SYSTEMS; ORGANIZATIONAL PROCESS; PROCESS DEFINITION; STRUCTURED APPROACH; THINKLETS; WORK-FLOW SYSTEMS; WORK-FLOWS;

CASE BASED REASONING;

EID: 14844361102     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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