Flexible support and management of adaptive workflow processes

Information Systems Frontiers

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 247-262

  Narendra, N C ^a  

^a IBM RESEARCH INDIA   (India)

Author keywords

Adaptive workflow; Flexible workflow; Information systems; Workflow

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; GRAPH THEORY; INFORMATION SCIENCE; LOGIC PROGRAMMING; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PROCESS CONTROL;

ADAPTIVE WORKFLOW; FLEXIBLE WORKFLOW; WORKFLOW; WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT;

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 4344623359     PISSN: 13873326     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:ISFI.0000037879.05648.ca     Document Type: Article

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