Towards integrated modeling of business processes and business rules

ACIS 2008 Proceedings - 19th Australasian Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 690-699

  zur Muehlen, Michael ^a   Indulska, Marta ^b   Kittel, Kai ^c  

^a STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Business process management; Business process modeling; Business rule modeling; Procedure model

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS OPERATION; BUSINESS PROCESS; BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT; BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; BUSINESS PROCESS MODEL; BUSINESS PROCESS MODELING; BUSINESS RULES; CURRENT TECHNOLOGY; DECISION FRAMEWORK; INTEGRATED MODELING; ORGANIZATIONAL ASPECTS; ORGANIZATIONAL PRACTICES; PROCEDURAL FORMS; PROCESS MODEL; RULE BASIS; RULE ENGINE; RULE MODELING;

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 79951891536     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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