Conceptual modeling of flexible temporal workflows

ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Combi, Carlo ^a   Gozzi, Matteo ^c   Posenato, Roberto ^a   Pozzi, Giuseppe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Flexible workflows; Temporal consistency; Temporal workflow

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS PROCESS; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; CONCEPTUAL MODELING; FLEXIBLE WORKFLOWS; LEADING TECHNOLOGY; RESEARCH PROTOTYPE; RUNTIMES; TEMPORAL ASPECTS; TEMPORAL CONSISTENCY; TEMPORAL CONSTRAINTS; TEMPORAL WORKFLOW; TIME CONSTRAINTS; WORK-FLOWS; WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; WORKFLOW PROCESS; WORKFLOW TECHNOLOGY;

WORK SIMPLIFICATION;

DESIGN;

EID: 84864856619     PISSN: 15564665     EISSN: 15564703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2240166.2240169     Document Type: Article

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