Reducing exception handling complexity in business process modeling and implementation: The WED-flow approach

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6426 LNCS, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages 150-167

  Ferreira, João E ^a   Takai, Osvaldo K ^a   Malkowski, Simon ^b   Pu, Calton ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Business process modeling and implementation; Critical paths; Data states; Events; Exception handling complexity

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS PROCESS MODELING; CRITICAL PATHS; DATA STATE; EVENTS; EXCEPTION HANDLING; BUSINESS PROCESS MODEL;

INTERNET; PETRI NETS; DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; PROCESS ENGINEERING; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

DATA HANDLING;

EID: 78650152893     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-16934-2_13     Document Type: Conference Paper

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