A taxonomy of transactional workflow support

International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 87-118

  Grefen, Paul ^a   Vonk, Jochem ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Transaction management; Transaction taxonomy; Transactional business process; Transactional web service; Transactional workflow; Workflow management; Workflow transaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 32644432928     PISSN: 02188430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S021884300600130X     Document Type: Article

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