Rule-based business process modelling and enactment

International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 194-207

  Goedertier, Stijn ^a   Haesen, Raf ^a   Vanthienen, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Business rules; Ontology; Process enactment; Process modelling; Service oriented architecture

Indexed keywords

EID: 60549098808     PISSN: 17418763     EISSN: 17418771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJBPIM.2008.023219     Document Type: Article

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