VBP: An approach to modelling process variety and best practice

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1104-1114

  King, Stephen F ^a   Johnson, Owen A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Best practice; Business process modelling; Electronic government; Patterns; Unified Modelling Language

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER CONTROL; COMPUTER SIMULATION LANGUAGES; CONTEXT SENSITIVE LANGUAGES; INTERNET; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

BEST PRACTICE; BUSINESS PROCESS MODELING; ELECTRONIC GOVERNMENT; PATTERNS; UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 33749254250     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2006.02.003     Document Type: Article

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