Managing business process variants at eBay

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

Volumn 67 LNBIP, Issue , 2010, Pages 91-105

  Pascalau, Emilian ^a   Rath, Clemens ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b European Center of Excellence EBay   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Business process variants; Inheritance; Ontology; Process complexity; Reuse

Indexed keywords

ONTOLOGY;

BUSINESS CONTEXTS; BUSINESS PROCESS; INHERITANCE; INHERITANCE MECHANISMS; PROCESS COMPLEXITY; PROCESS VARIANTS; PROPER SOLUTIONS; REUSE;

DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 84876274319     PISSN: 18651348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-16298-5_9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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