Using roles and business objects to model and understand business processes

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn 2, Issue , 2005, Pages 1308-1313

  Caetano, Artur ^a   Silva, António Rito ^a   Tribolet, José ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Business Object; Business Process Modeling; Organizational Engineering; Role Modeling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

BUSINESS OBJECT; BUSINESS PROCESS MODELING; ORGANIZATIONAL ENGINEERING; ROLE MODELING;

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 33644525283     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1066677.1066973     Document Type: Conference Paper

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