Organisational reference models: supporting an adequate design of local business processes

International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 134-149

  Reinhartz Berger, Iris ^a   Soffer, Pnina ^a   Sturm, Arnon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

BPMN; business process modelling notation; business process validation and verification; domain analysis; process modelling; reference model; reuse

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955851738     PISSN: 17418763     EISSN: 17418771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJBPIM.2009.027781     Document Type: Article

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