An approach to enterprise process dynamic modeling supporting enterprise process evolution

Information Systems Frontiers

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 611-624

  Xu, Lida ^a,b   Tan, Wenan ^c,d   Zhen, Hongyuan ^d   Shen, Weiming ^e  

^a BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ZHEJIANG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

^e NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Enterprise information systems; Enterprise modeling; Enterprise process modeling; Enterprise process scheduling; Evolutionary approach

Indexed keywords

AGENTS; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LITHIUM; PACKET NETWORKS; PRODUCTION CONTROL; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

AGENT-BASED; AUTONOMOUS-AGENT; COLLABORATIVE MODELING; COOPERATIVE SCHEDULING; DEVELOPMENT PLATFORM; DYNAMIC MODELLING; ENTERPRISE INFORMATION SYSTEMS; ENTERPRISE MODELING; ENTERPRISE MODELLING; ENTERPRISE PROCESS MODELING; ENTERPRISE PROCESS SCHEDULING; EVOLUTIONARY APPROACH; EVOLUTIONARY APPROACHES; FUNCTION MODULES; PROCESS EVOLUTIONS; RESOURCE AGENTS; RICARDO; SCHEDULING STRATEGIES;

SCHEDULING;

EID: 52949140577     PISSN: 13873326     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10796-008-9114-3     Document Type: Article

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