Business process management with the user requirements notation

Electronic Commerce Research

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 269-316

  Pourshahid, Alireza ^a,b   Amyot, Daniel ^a   Peyton, Liam ^a   Ghanavati, Sepideh ^a   Chen, Pengfei ^d   Weiss, Michael ^c   Forster, Alan J ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b IBM CANADA LTD   (Canada)

^c CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d RESEARCH IN MOTION   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^f OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Business process management; Business process model; Goal oriented business process monitoring; Performance management; User requirement notation

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING; BENCHMARKING; DATA WAREHOUSES; PROCESS CONTROL; PROCESS MONITORING;

BUSINESS GOALS; BUSINESS PROCESS MODELING; BUSINESS PROCESS MONITORING; EBUSINESS; GOAL-ORIENTED; GOAL-ORIENTED BUSINESS PROCESS MONITORING; PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT; PROCESS MANAGEMENT METHODOLOGY; PROCESS MANAGEMENT TOOL; USER REQUIREMENTS NOTATION;

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 73249133312     PISSN: 13895753     EISSN: 15729362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10660-009-9039-z     Document Type: Article

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