Coupling and process modeling an analysis at hand of the eEPC

Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI), Proceedings - Series of the Gesellschaft fur Informatik (GI)

Volumn P225, Issue , 2014, Pages 121-136

  Braunnagel, Daniel ^a   Johannsen, Florian ^a   Leist, Susanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

BUSINESS PROCESS MODEL; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; IN-PROCESS; MODEL LANGUAGES; PROCESS MODEL; PROCESS MODEL QUALITIES; PROCESS MODELING; UNDERSTANDABILITY;

PROCESS ENGINEERING;

EID: 84908222026     PISSN: 16175468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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