Business process modelling and analysis using UML and polychromatic sets

Production Planning and Control

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 780-791

  Gao, X ^a   Li, Z ^a  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Activity diagram; Business process re engineering (BPR); Modelling and analysing; Polychromatic sets (PS) theory; Unified modelling language (UML)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION LANGUAGES; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTIMIZATION; PROCESS ENGINEERING; SET THEORY;

ACTIVITY DIAGRAMS; BUSINESS PROCESS RE ENGINEERING (BPR); POLYCHROMATIC SETS (PS) THEORY; UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE (UML);

REENGINEERING;

EID: 37849189641     PISSN: 09537287     EISSN: 13665871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09537280600875273     Document Type: Article

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