ActivityFlow: Towards incremental specification and flexible coordination of workflow activities

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

Volumn 1331, Issue , 1997, Pages 169-182

  Liu, Ling ^a   Pu, Calton ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPECIFICATION LANGUAGES; SPECIFICATIONS;

ACTIVITY MODELING; COMPLEX WORKFLOWS; IMPLEMENTATION MECHANISMS; OPEN ARCHITECTURE; ORGANIZATIONAL PROCESS; USER INTERACTION; WORK-FLOW SYSTEMS; WORKFLOW SPECIFICATION;

MODELING LANGUAGES;

EID: 79956073221     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-63699-4_14     Document Type: Conference Paper

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