Change patterns and change support features - Enhancing flexibility in process-aware information systems

Data and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 438-466

  Weber, Barbara ^a   Reichert, Manfred ^b,c   Rinderle Ma, Stefanie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Patterns; Process change; Process flexibility; Process aware information systems; Workflow management

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SCIENCE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; TECHNOLOGY;

(OTDR) TECHNOLOGY; ANALYSIS AND EVALUATION; CASE STUDIES; CHANGE PATTERNS; ELSEVIER (CO); EMPIRICAL EVIDENCES; ENTERPRISE COMPUTING; IN PROCESS; PROCESS AWARE INFORMATION SYSTEMS (PAIS); PROCESS CHANGE; PROCESS MANAGEMENT (PM); PROCESS SUPPORT; SYSTEMATIC (CO);

INDUSTRY;

EID: 47849117407     PISSN: 0169023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.datak.2008.05.001     Document Type: Article

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