Achieving business process flexibility with business rules

Proceedings - 12th IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference, EDOC 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 95-104

  Van Eijndhoven, Tim ^a   Iacob, Maria Eugenia ^a   Ponisio, María Laura ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Business processes; Business rules; Networked business; Service oriented architecture

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS PROCESSES; BUSINESS RULES; DYNAMIC PATTERNS; NETWORKED BUSINESS; PROCESS FLOWS; SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE; WORKFLOW PATTERNS;

DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; INFORMATION SERVICES; PROCESS ENGINEERING;

MANAGEMENT SCIENCE;

EID: 56649117636     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EDOC.2008.23     Document Type: Conference Paper

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