Automated planning of process models: The construction of exclusive choices

ICIS 2009 Proceedings - Thirtieth International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Heinrich, Bernd ^a   Bolsinger, Manuel ^b   Bewernik, Marc ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automated planning; Design science research; Process modeling

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED PLANNING; BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT; CONTROL FLOWS; CUSTOMER DEMANDS; DESIGN SCIENCE; INNOVATIVE ALGORITHMS; PLANNING ALGORITHMS; PROCESS MANAGEMENT; PROCESS MODEL; PROCESS MODELING;

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING; ALGORITHMS; DESIGN; ENTERPRISE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS;

AUTOMATION;

EID: 84870965436     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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