Making work flow: On the application of petri nets to business process management

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2360 LNCS, Issue , 2002, Pages 1-22

  Van Der Aalst, Wil M P ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PETRI NETS; WORK SIMPLIFICATION; ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING; MANAGEMENT SCIENCE;

APPLICATION OF PETRI NETS; BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT; BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; ENTERPRISE INFORMATION SYSTEM; ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING SYSTEMS; PETRI NET THEORIES; SOFTWARE DEVELOPER; WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS;

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING;

EID: 84879104765     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-48068-4_1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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