An evaluation framework for business process modeling languages in healthcare

Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 1-19

  Rad, Amir Afrasiabi ^a   Benyoucef, Morad ^a   Kuziemsky, Craig E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

BPEL; Business process modeling; Healthcare; Modeling language; Web service composition; WS CDL

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953295406     PISSN: None     EISSN: 07181876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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