Enhancing conflict detecting mechanism for Web Services composition: A business process flow model transformation approach

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1069-1087

  Huang, Shi Ming ^a   Chu, Yuang Te ^a   Li, Shing Han ^b   Yen, David C ^c  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TATUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conflict detecting mechanism (CDM); Enterprise application integration (EAI); Web Services composition

Indexed keywords

CANNING; CONTINUUM DAMAGE MECHANICS; INFORMATION SERVICES; MECHANISMS; STANDARDS; TECHNOLOGY; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER; WEB SERVICES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

APPLICATION SYSTEMS; BUSINESS OPERATIONS; BUSINESS PROCESSING; CASE STUDIES; CONFLICT DETECTING MECHANISM (CDM); DIGITAL SERVICES; ENTERPRISE APPLICATION INTEGRATION; ENTERPRISE APPLICATION INTEGRATION (EAI); HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEMS; OPERATIONAL PROCESSING; ORIGINAL SYSTEMS; WEB SERVICES COMPOSITION; WEB SERVICES COMPOSITIONS;

INTEGRATION;

EID: 49549122659     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2007.10.014     Document Type: Article

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