A process-view approach for cross-organizational workflows management

Advanced Engineering Informatics

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 229-240

  Jiang, Ping ^a   Shao, Xinyu ^a   Gao, Liang ^a   Qiu, Haobo ^a   Li, Peigen ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS PROCESS; CIRCULAR SAWS; COLLABORATIVE EXECUTION; CONTROL FLOWS; COOPERATIVE ORGANIZATION; CROSS-ORGANIZATIONAL WORKFLOW; DATA FLOW; DECENTRALIZED WORKFLOW; DISTRIBUTED DEVELOPMENT; FORMAL DEFINITION; HYBRID P2P; PROCESS-VIEW; SCALABLE ARCHITECTURES; SYSTEM VALIDATION; TEST CASE; TIMED COLORED PETRI NET; WORK-FLOWS; WORKFLOW MANAGEMENTS; WORKFLOW MODELING; WORKFLOW MODELS;

DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; PEER TO PEER NETWORKS; PETRI NETS; WORK SIMPLIFICATION;

MANAGEMENT;

EID: 77949484919     PISSN: 14740346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aei.2010.01.001     Document Type: Article

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