Generating correct EPCs from configured C-EPCs

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 1505-1510

  Mendling, Jan ^a   Recker, Jan ^b   Rosemann, Michael ^b   Van Der Aalst, Wil ^c  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Business process modeling; Process configuration; Reference modeling

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

BUSINESS PROCESS MODELING; ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS; PROCESS CONFIGURATION; REFERENCE MODELING;

DATA STRUCTURES;

EID: 33751025152     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1141277.1141629     Document Type: Conference Paper

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