Extracting data objects and their states from process models

Proceedings - IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Workshop, EDOC

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 27-36

  Meyer, Andreas ^a   Weske, Mathias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

BPM; Data Extraction Algorithm; Data Objects; Data States

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRY;

BPM; BUSINESS PROCESS MODEL; CONSISTENCY CHECKS; CONTROL-FLOW STRUCTURES; DATA EXTRACTION; DATA OBJECTS; DATA STATE; REAL-WORLD PROCESS;

LIFE CYCLE;

EID: 84892489422     PISSN: 15417719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EDOC.2013.13     Document Type: Conference Paper

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