A collaboration process study with application of agent interaction and behavior diagrams

2010 International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems, CTS 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 302-313

  Stuit, Marco ^a   Wortmann, Hans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Agent interaction and behavior modeling; Business process analysis; Case study; Collaboration processes; Design science research

Indexed keywords

AGENT INTERACTION; BEHAVIOR MODELING; BUSINESS PROCESS ANALYSIS; COLLABORATION PROCESS; DESIGN SCIENCE;

GRAPH THEORY; LINGUISTICS; MANAGEMENT; STUDS (STRUCTURAL MEMBERS); TREES (MATHEMATICS); VISUALIZATION;

RESEARCH;

EID: 77954522311     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CTS.2010.5478497     Document Type: Conference Paper

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