A foundational approach for managing process variability

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

Volumn 6741 LNCS, Issue , 2011, Pages 267-282

  Weidlich, Matthias ^a   Mendling, Jan ^b   Weske, Mathias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS PROCESS; IT INFRASTRUCTURES; LEGAL REQUIREMENTS; PROCESS MODEL; PROCESS VARIABILITY; SET-THEORETIC OPERATIONS; BEHAVIOURAL PROFILES; ORGANISATIONAL;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

EID: 79960289199     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-21640-4_21     Document Type: Conference Paper

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