Self-adapting recovery nets for policy-driven exception handling in business processes

Distributed and Parallel Databases

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-44

  Hamadi, Rachid ^a   Benatallah, Boualem ^a   Medjahed, Brahim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN DEARBORN   (United States)

Author keywords

Business processes; Exception handling; Petri nets; Region based recovery; Self adapting recovery net (SARN); Task based recovery

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING; DATA HANDLING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

BUSINESS PROCESSES; EXCEPTION HANDLING TECHNIQUE; HIGH-LEVEL RECOVERY POLICIES;

INTERNET;

EID: 38349083767     PISSN: 09268782     EISSN: 15737578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10619-007-7020-1     Document Type: Article

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