A model-driven approach for generating business processes and process interaction semantics

Proceedings of the 2009 8th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Computer and Information Science, ICIS 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 483-488

  Zhao, Chenting ^a,b   Duan, Zhenhua ^a   Zhang, Man ^a  

^a XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Business process model; Process interaction semantics; Process model mapping pattern; Transformation rule

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS PROCESS; BUSINESS PROCESS DESIGN; BUSINESS PROCESS MODEL; BUSINESS PROCESS MODELING; BUSINESS VALUE; HIGHER EFFICIENCY; HUMAN RESOURCES; KEY TECHNOLOGIES; METADATA MODEL; MODEL DRIVEN APPROACH; MODELING LANGUAGES; PROCESS INTERACTION; PROCESS INTERACTION SEMANTICS; PROCESS MODEL; PROCESS MODEL MAPPING PATTERN; PROCESS MODELING LANGUAGE; TRANSFORMATION PATTERNS; TRANSFORMATION RULE; UML 2.0; WS-BPEL;

LINGUISTICS; METADATA; PROCESS MONITORING; QUERY LANGUAGES; SEMANTICS;

PROCESS DESIGN;

EID: 70350741578     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIS.2009.135     Document Type: Conference Paper

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