Managing large collections of business process models - Current techniques and challenges

Computers in Industry

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 91-97

  Dijkman, Remco ^a   La Rosa, Marcello ^b,c   Reijers, Hajo A ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Business process management; Model collection; Model management

Indexed keywords

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT; BUSINESS PROCESS MODEL; MODEL MANAGEMENT; ORGANIZATIONAL PROCESS; PROCESS MODEL; PROCESS MODELING; SIMILARITY SEARCH; SINGLE PROCESS;

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 84857997360     PISSN: 01663615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compind.2011.12.003     Document Type: Editorial

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