Support for business process flexibility in service compositions: An evaluative survey

Proceedings of the Australian Software Engineering Conference, ASWEC

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 97-106

  Kapuruge, Malinda ^a   Han, Jun ^a   Colman, Alan ^a  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Automated process support; Business process; Process flexibility; Services composition; SOA

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED PROCESS; AUTOMATED SUPPORT; BUSINESS ACTIVITIES; BUSINESS PROCESS; BUSINESS PROCESS MODELING; CRITICAL ISSUES; PROCESS FLEXIBILITY; SERVICE COMPOSITIONS; SERVICES COMPOSITION; SYSTEMATIC ANALYSIS; TECHNICAL ENVIRONMENTS; VOLATILE MARKETS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

AUTOMATION;

EID: 77954318053     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASWEC.2010.27     Document Type: Conference Paper

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