Business process models: Change management

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

Volumn 7849, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-234

  Gerth, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS PROCESS MODEL; DEVELOPMENT APPROACH; DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT; DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; INTEGRATED PROCESS MODEL; INTERMEDIATE REPRESENTATIONS; MODEL-DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT;

ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE; INFORMATION SERVICES; MANAGEMENT; SEMANTICS; SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE (SOA); WEB SERVICES;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84884312596     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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