Introducing the guard-stage-milestone approach for specifying business entity lifecycles

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

Volumn 6551 LNCS, Issue , 2011, Pages 1-24

  Hull, Richard ^a   Damaggio, Elio ^b   Fournier, Fabiana ^c   Gupta, Manmohan ^d   Heath III, Fenno ^a   Hobson, Stacy ^a   Linehan, Mark ^a   Maradugu, Sridhar ^a   Nigam, Anil ^a   Sukaviriya, Piyawadee ^a   Vaculin, Roman ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c IBM HAIFA RESEARCH LAB   (Israel)

^d IBM INDIA RESEARCH LAB   (India)

Author keywords

Business Artifact; Business Entity with Lifecycle; Business Operations Management; Business Process Management; Case Management; Data centric Workflow; Declarative

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS ARTIFACT; BUSINESS ENTITY WITH LIFECYCLE; BUSINESS OPERATION; BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT; CASE MANAGEMENT; DATA CENTRIC; DECLARATIVE;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; CONTOUR FOLLOWERS; ENTERPRISE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; FINITE AUTOMATA; FORMAL METHODS; INFORMATION THEORY; LIFE CYCLE; SEMANTICS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

WEB SERVICES;

EID: 79953076160     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-19589-1_1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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