The dynamics of process modeling: New directions for the use of events and rules in service-oriented computing

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

Volumn 6520, Issue , 2011, Pages 205-224

  Urban, Susan D ^a   Gao, Le ^a   Shrestha, Rajiv ^a   Courter, Andrew ^a  

^a Texas Tech University   (United States)

Author keywords

Application exception rules; Assurance points; Dynamic process modeling; Event and rule processing; Integration rules; Invariant conditions; Service composition

Indexed keywords

ASSURANCE POINTS; DYNAMIC PROCESS MODELING; EVENT AND RULE PROCESSING; EXCEPTION RULES; INTEGRATION RULES; INVARIANT CONDITIONS; SERVICE COMPOSITION;

DATA MINING; INTEGRATION;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 79956087310     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-17505-3_10     Document Type: Article

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