Research challenges for business process models at run-time

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

Volumn 8378 LNCS, Issue , 2014, Pages 208-236

  Redlich, David ^a,b   Blair, Gordon ^b   Rashid, Awais ^b   Molka, Thomas ^a,c   Gilani, Wasif ^a  

^a SAP Research Center   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

adaptive systems; business process management; business process models; business process optimisation; run time models

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; ENTERPRISE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; OPTIMIZATION;

ADAPTATION MECHANISM; BUSINESS ORGANISATION; BUSINESS PROCESS; BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT; BUSINESS PROCESS MODEL; BUSINESS PROCESS MODELLING; CORPORATE STRATEGIES; RUNTIMES;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 84904795636     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-08915-7_8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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