Business process change management based on process model synchronization of multiple abstraction levels

Proceedings - 2011 IEEE International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing and Applications, SOCA 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Weidmann, Monika ^a   Alvi, Modood ^b   Koetter, Falko ^a   Leymann, Frank ^b   Renner, Thomas ^a   Schumm, David ^b  

^a FRAUNHOFER IAO   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

abstraction levels; business process modelling; change propagation; model synchronization; process BPM

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTION LEVEL; BUSINESS PROCESS MODELLING; CHANGE PROPAGATION; MODEL SYNCHRONIZATION; PROCESS BPM;

ABSTRACTING; INFORMATION SERVICES; MANAGEMENT; SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE (SOA);

SYNCHRONIZATION;

EID: 84859992565     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SOCA.2011.6166253     Document Type: Conference Paper

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