Merging workflows: A new perspective on connecting business processes

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 844-858

  Sun, Shuang ^a   Kumar, Akhil ^b   Yen, John ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Business process reengineering; Conditional; Iterative merge; Parallel; Sequential; Workflow management; Workflow merge; Workflow modeling

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS PROCESS REENGINEERING; ITERATIVE MERGE; SEQUENTIAL; WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT; WORKFLOW MERGE; WORKFLOW MODELING;

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING; ALGORITHMS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; REENGINEERING; RESEARCH; SEMANTICS;

DATA FLOW ANALYSIS;

EID: 33749542983     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2005.07.001     Document Type: Article

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