Towards a flexible business process modeling and simulation environment

Proceedings - Winter Simulation Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1694-1701

  Ren, Changrui ^a   Wang, Wei ^a   Dong, Jin ^a   Ding, Hongwei ^a   Shao, Bing ^a   Wang, Qinhua ^a  

^a IBM CHINA RESEARCH LAB   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS PROCESS; BUSINESS PROCESS MODELING; BUSINESS PROCESS SIMULATIONS; BUSINESS-USERS; COMMON UNDERSTANDING; FLEXIBLE BUSINESS PROCESS; FLEXIBLE ENVIRONMENTS; PROCESS MODELING; PROCESS SIMULATIONS; SOFTWARE TOOLS; SUPPLY CHAIN PROCESS;

CIRCUIT SIMULATION; FISCHER-TROPSCH SYNTHESIS; SUPPLY CHAINS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 60749123624     PISSN: 08917736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WSC.2008.4736255     Document Type: Conference Paper

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