Agile workflow technology and case-based change reuse for long-term processes

International Journal of Intelligent Information Technologies

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 80-98

  Minor, Mirjam ^a   Tartakovski, Alexander ^a   Schmalen, Daniel ^a   Bergmann, Ralph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptation of workflows; Agile workflow; Case based adaptation; Workflow modeling language; Workflow similarity measure

Indexed keywords

MODELING LANGUAGES;

AGILE WORKFLOW; CASE BASED; SIMILARITY MEASURE; WORK-FLOWS; WORKFLOW MODELING LANGUAGES;

CASE BASED REASONING;

EID: 55949112747     PISSN: 15483657     EISSN: 15483665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/jiit.2008010104     Document Type: Article

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