Modularity in process models: Review and effects

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5240 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 20-35

  Reijers, Hajo ^a   Mendling, Jan ^b  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES; IMPLICATIONS FOR FUTURES; IN-PROCESS; MODULAR DESIGNS; MODULAR PROCESS; MODULARIZATIONS; PROCESS MODEL; PROCESS MODELING;

MODULAR CONSTRUCTION;

EID: 57049181307     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-85758-7_5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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