DISCOBOLE: A service architecture for interconnecting workflow processes

Computers in Industry

Volumn 57, Issue 8-9, 2006, Pages 768-777

  Baïna, Karim ^a   Benali, Khalid ^b   Godart, Claude ^b  

^a MOHAMMED V UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

^b LORIA   (France)

Author keywords

Business processes; Negotiation; Service Oriented Architecture; Workflow integration; Workflow interconnexion; Workflow systems

Indexed keywords

DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; INFORMATION SERVICES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

BUSINESS PROCESSES; SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE; WORKFLOW INTEGRATION; WORKFLOW INTERCONNECTION; WORKFLOW SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 33751028536     PISSN: 01663615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compind.2006.04.018     Document Type: Article

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