A knowledge centred framework for collaborative business process modelling

Business Process Management Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 557-575

  Adamides, Emmanuel D ^a   Karacapilidis, Nikos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Business process re engineering; Knowledge management; Modelling; Problem solving

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748697394     PISSN: 14637154     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14637150610690993     Document Type: Article

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