CoopFlow: A Bottom-Up Approach to Workflow Cooperation for Short-Term Virtual Enterprises

IEEE Transactions on Services Computing

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 214-228

  Tata, Samir ^a   Ould Ahmed M'Bareck, Nomane ^a   Klai, Kais ^b  

^a INSTITUT TELECOM   (France)

^b Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris Nord Villetaneuse   (France)

Author keywords

flexible business process integration; formalization of services composition; Inter enterprise collaboration

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM-UP APPROACHES; FLEXIBLE BUSINESS PROCESS INTEGRATION; FORMALIZATION OF SERVICES COMPOSITION; INTER ENTERPRISE; INTER OPERABILITIES; INTER-ENTERPRISE COLLABORATION; PARTIAL VISIBILITIES; PROOF OF CONCEPTS; VIRTUAL ENTERPRISE; WORK-FLOWS; WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS;

ABSTRACTING; INFORMATION THEORY; INTEGRATION; WORK SIMPLIFICATION;

MANAGEMENT;

EID: 77949490571     PISSN: 19391374     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSC.2008.19     Document Type: Article

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