An approach to define semantics for BPM systems interoperability

Enterprise Information Systems

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 324-347

  Rico, Mariela ^a   Caliusco, María Laura ^a   Chiotti, Omar ^a,b   Galli, María Rosa ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD TECNOLÓGICA NACIONAL   (Argentina)

^b El INGAR Instituto de Desarollo y Diseno   (Argentina)

Author keywords

BPM system; Context; Cross organizational business process; Method; Ontology; Semantics

Indexed keywords

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INTEROPERABILITY; ONTOLOGY; SEMANTICS; UNITS OF MEASUREMENT;

BPM SYSTEM; BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; CONTEXT; CROSS-ORGANIZATIONAL; CROSS-ORGANIZATIONAL BUSINESS PROCESS; EMPIRICAL VALIDATION; METHOD; SYSTEMS INTEROPERABILITY;

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 84875133703     PISSN: 17517575     EISSN: 17517583     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17517575.2013.767381     Document Type: Article

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