Partial process models to manage business process variants

International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 240-256

  Pascalau, Emilian ^a   Awad, Ahmed ^a   Sakr, Sherif ^b   Weske, Mathias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Business process design; Process variants; Querying business processes; Reuse

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053048444     PISSN: 17418763     EISSN: 17418771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJBPIM.2011.042528     Document Type: Article

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