Capturing variability in business process models: The Provop approach

Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution

Volumn 22, Issue 6-7, 2010, Pages 519-546

  Hallerbach, Alena ^a   Bauer, Thomas ^a   Reichert, Manfred ^b  

^a DAIMLER AG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Process adaptation; Process configuration; Process design; Process reference model; Process variant

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS PROCESS; BUSINESS PROCESS MODEL; CONDITIONAL BRANCH; DESIGN AND MODELING; DIFFERENT PROCESS; ERROR PRONES; HIGH LEVEL OF ABSTRACTION; MODEL ADAPTATION; PROCESS ADAPTATION; PROCESS CONFIGURATION; PROCESS MANAGEMENT TOOL; PROCESS MODEL; PROCESS REFERENCE MODELS; PROCESS VARIANTS;

DESIGN; MODELS;

PROCESS DESIGN;

EID: 78649614347     PISSN: 1532060X     EISSN: 15320618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smr.491     Document Type: Article

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