Managing Structural and Textual Quality of Business Process Models

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

Volumn 162, Issue , 2013, Pages 100-111

  Mendling, Jan ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING;

AUTOMATIC ANALYSIS; BUSINESS EFFICIENCY; BUSINESS OPERATION; BUSINESS PROCESS MODEL; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; PROCESS MODEL; PROCESS MODELING; REQUIREMENTS ELICITATION;

QUALITY ASSURANCE;

EID: 84886045677     PISSN: 18651348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-40919-6_6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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