Modeling and managing interactions among business processes

HP Laboratories Technical Report

Volumn , Issue 159, 2000, Pages

  Casati, Fabio ^a   Discenza, Angela ^a,b  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Events; Interoperability; Workflows

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS GOALS; BUSINESS PROCESSES; PROCESS DATA; WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS (WFMS);

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; LEGACY SYSTEMS; PACEMAKERS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; SYNCHRONIZATION;

INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84862449774     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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