Flexible support of team processes by adaptive workflow systems

Distributed and Parallel Databases

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 91-116

  Rinderle, Stefanie ^a   Reichert, Manfred ^a   Dadam, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptive systems; Compliance checks; Schema evolution; Workflow management

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ERROR ANALYSIS; GRAPH THEORY; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

COMPLIANCE CHECKS; SCHEMA EVOLUTION; WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS (WFMS);

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK;

EID: 2542425817     PISSN: 09268782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:DAPD.0000026270.78463.77     Document Type: Article

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