Surmounting BPM challenges: The YAWL story

Computer Science - Research and Development

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 67-79

  Russell, Nick ^a   Ter Hofstede, Arthur H M ^b  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Workflow management; Workflow patterns; YAWL

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT; BUSINESS PROCESS MODELLING; HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT; STRUCTURED APPROACH; WORKFLOW LANGUAGE; WORKFLOW MANAGEMENTS; WORKFLOW PATTERNS; YAWL;

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

WORK SIMPLIFICATION;

EID: 67349235543     PISSN: 18652034     EISSN: 18652042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00450-009-0059-7     Document Type: Article

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