Achieving business process model interoperability using metamodels and ontologies

Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1620-1631

  Höfferer, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Business process modeling; Interoperability; Metamodels; Ontologies; Semantic integration

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS PROCESS; BUSINESS PROCESS MODEL; BUSINESS PROCESS MODELING; HETEROGENEOUS INFORMATION; INFORMATION RESOURCE; META MODEL; MODEL ELEMENTS; RESEARCH FIELDS; SEMANTIC INTEGRATION; SEMANTIC INTEROPERABILITY; STANDARD SOFTWARE; WORKFLOW ENGINES;

INFORMATION SERVICES; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ONTOLOGY; SEMANTICS; SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE (SOA); SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

INTEROPERABILITY;

EID: 84869443666     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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