Dynamically analyzing time constraints in workflow systems with fixed-date constraint

Advances in Web Technologies and Applications - Proceedings of the 12th Asia-Pacific Web Conference, APWeb 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 99-105

  Han, Rui ^a,b,c   Liu, Yingbo ^a,b,c   Wen, Lijie ^a,b,c   Wang, Jianmin ^a,b,c  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^c TSINGHUA NATIONAL LABORATORY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY INSTANCES; BUSINESS PROCESS; PROCESS EXECUTION; PROCESS INSTANCES; REAL-WORLD; RUN-TIME ANALYSIS; TIME CONSTRAINTS; TIME MANAGEMENT; WORK-FLOW SYSTEMS; WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; WORKFLOW PROCESS;

STOCHASTIC MODELS; WORK SIMPLIFICATION;

MANAGEMENT;

EID: 77954301839     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APWeb.2010.36     Document Type: Conference Paper

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