A flexible, object-centric approach for business process modelling

Service Oriented Computing and Applications

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 191-201

  Redding, Guy ^a   Dumas, Marlon ^b   ter Hofstede, Arthur H M ^a   Iordachescu, Adrian ^c  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^c FlowConnect Pty Ltd   (Australia)

Author keywords

Flexible workflow; Object centric; Object oriented; Process modelling

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS PROCESS MODELLING; DESIGN PARADIGM; FLEXIBLE PROCESS; FLEXIBLE WORKFLOWS; HUMAN SERVICES; OBJECT ORIENTED; OBJECT ORIENTED MODELLING; OBJECT-CENTRIC; PROCESS MODELLING;

MANAGEMENT;

EID: 77956339888     PISSN: 18632386     EISSN: 18632394     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11761-010-0065-4     Document Type: Article

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