Extending BPMN business process model with SBVR business vocabulary and rules

Information Technology and Control

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 356-367

  Skersys, Tomas ^a   Tutkut, Lina ^a   Butleris, Rimantas ^a   Butkien, Rita ^a  

^a KAUNAS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

BPMN; Business process; Business process modeling; Business rule; Business vocabulary; Information systems development; SBVR

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872259856     PISSN: 1392124X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5755/j01.itc.41.4.2013     Document Type: Article

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