Declarative versus imperative business process languages: A controlled experiment

ICEIS 2014 - Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems

Volumn 3, Issue , 2014, Pages 394-401

  Silva, Natália C ^a   De Oliveira, César A L ^a   Albino, Fabiane A L A ^a   Lima, Ricardo M F ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Comparative Study; Controlled Software Experiment; Declarative Languages; Flexible Business Processes

Indexed keywords

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PROCESS ENGINEERING; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

BUSINESS PROCESS MODEL; CHANGING ENVIRONMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT; DECLARATIVE LANGUAGES; DECLARATIVE MODELS; FLEXIBLE BUSINESS PROCESS; PROCESS MODELING;

PROCESS CONTROL;

EID: 84902345252     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.5220/0004896203940401     Document Type: Conference Paper

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