Facilitating cross-organisational workflows with a workflow view approach

Data and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 109-147

  Schulz, Karsten A ^a   Oklowska, Maria E ^b  

^a SAP Australia Pty Ltd   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cross organisational workflow; Cross organisational workflow architecture; Workflow engine; Workflow view

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DATA PRIVACY; INFORMATION SCIENCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PETRI NETS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEMANTICS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; WORLD WIDE WEB;

BUSINESS PARTNERS; BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT (BPM); CROSS-ORGANIZATIONAL WORKFLOWS; DATA EXCHANGE;

DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 4243121778     PISSN: 0169023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.datak.2004.03.008     Document Type: Article

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