Management of business process constraints using BPTrigger

Computers in Industry

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 29-51

  Park, Chulsoon ^a,b   Choi, Injun ^a  

^a Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

^b Changwon National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Business process; Constraint management; Trigger; Workflow management

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INVENTORY CONTROL; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PROBLEM SOLVING;

BUSINESS PROCESS; CONSTRAINT MANAGEMENT; TRIGGER; WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 3042740346     PISSN: 01663615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compind.2003.11.003     Document Type: Article

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