Specifying and monitoring interactions and commitments in open business processes

IEEE Software

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 72-79

  Robinson, William N ^a   Purao, Sandeep ^b  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Business processes; Open software systems; Requirements analysis; Runtime monitoring; Web services

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; NETWORK COMPONENTS; PROCESS ENGINEERING; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING; WEB SERVICES;

BUSINESS PROCESS DESIGNS; BUSINESS PROCESSES; HETEROGENEOUS SERVICES; INTER-ACTION PROTOCOLS; NEW APPROACHES; OPEN SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; PROCESS FAILURES; REQUIREMENTS ANALYSIS; RUNTIME MONITORING; SERVICE-LEVEL AGREEMENTS;

INTERNET PROTOCOLS;

EID: 63049101461     PISSN: 07407459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MS.2009.48     Document Type: Article

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