A survey of comparative business process modeling approaches

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4439 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 82-94

  Lu, Ruopeng ^a   Sadiq, Shazia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Business process management; Business process modeling and analysis; Graph based workflows; Rule based workflows; Workflows

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FORMAL LANGUAGES; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT (BPM); BUSINESS PROCESS MODELING; GRAPH BASED WORKFLOWS; RULE BASED WORKFLOWS;

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 38049006510     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-72035-5_7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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