From contracts to e-contracts: Modeling and enactment

Information Technology and Management

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 363-387

  Krishna, P Radha ^a   Karlapalem, Kamalakar ^b   Dani, A R ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENT AND RESEARCH IN BANKING TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Business process model; Electronic contract; ER model; Meta model; Workflow

Indexed keywords

EID: 27644486340     PISSN: 1385951X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10799-005-3901-z     Document Type: Article

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