A Transformation-Based Approach to Business Process Management in the Cloud

Journal of Grid Computing

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 191-219

  Duipmans, Evert Ferdinand ^a   Ferreira Pires, Luís ^a   Bonino da Silva Santos, Luiz Olavo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b BiZZdesign BV   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

BPM in the cloud; Business processes; Cloud computing; Process decomposition

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; ENTERPRISE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; HARDWARE;

AUTOMATED TRANSFORMATIONS; BUSINESS PROCESS; BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT; CLOUD COMPUTING TECHNOLOGIES; CLOUD ENVIRONMENTS; COMPUTING RESOURCE; PROCESS DECOMPOSITIONS; PROCESS FRAGMENTS;

METADATA;

EID: 84905051835     PISSN: 15707873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10723-013-9278-z     Document Type: Article

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