Integration of risk identification with business process models

Systems Engineering

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 187-198

  Lambert, James H ^a   Jennings, Rachel K ^a   Joshi, Nilesh N ^a  

^a University of Virginia   (United States)

Author keywords

Business process models; Failure modes effects and criticality analysis (FMECA); Integrated definition for function (IDEF) modeling; Risk assessment; Risk identification; Systems integration

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS PROCESS MODELS; HIERARCHICAL HOLOGRAPHIC MODELING (HHM); RISK IDENTIFICATION; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION;

FUNCTION EVALUATION; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS;

EID: 33748417848     PISSN: 10981241     EISSN: 15206858     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sys.20054     Document Type: Article

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