Design of an object-oriented workflow management system with reusable and fine-grained components

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3706 LNCS, Issue , 2005, Pages 192-207

  Hwang, Gwan Hwan ^a   Lee, Yung Chuan ^b   Chang, Sheng Ho ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b System Development and Technical Support Department   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Object Oriented Programming Language; Reusability; Software Components; Workflow Management System

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY; COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

SOFTWARE COMPONENTS; WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT SYSTEM;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 33646203883     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11560296_15     Document Type: Conference Paper

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