Business process integration point classification and the priority evaluation method

International Journal of Business Information Systems

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 210-232

  Wang, Zhong Jie ^a   Xu, Xiao Fei ^a  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Business process integration; Integration pattern; Integration Point; IP; Priority evaluation; Responsibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 59549085864     PISSN: 17460972     EISSN: 17460980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJBIS.2009.022824     Document Type: Article

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