Process flexibility: A survey of contemporary approaches

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

Volumn 10 LNBIP, Issue , 2008, Pages 16-30

  Schonenberg, Helen ^a   Mans, Ronny ^a   Russell, Nick ^a   Mulyar, Nataliya ^a   Van Der Aalst, Wil ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Change; Design; Deviation; Flexible PAIS; Taxonomy; Underspecification

Indexed keywords

MANAGEMENT; WORK SIMPLIFICATION;

BUSINESS ENVIRONMENTS; BUSINESS PROCESS; CHANGE; DEVIATION; DYNAMIC NATURE; FLEXIBLE PAIS; FLEXIBLE WORKFLOWS; PROCESS FLEXIBILITY; PROCESS SUPPORT; UNDERSPECIFICATION;

TAXONOMIES;

EID: 67349147825     PISSN: 18651348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-68644-6_2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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