Event-driven business process management: Where are we now?: A comprehensive synthesis and analysis of literature

Business Process Management Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 615-633

  Krumeich, Julian ^a   Weis, Benjamin ^a   Werth, Dirk ^a   Loos, Peter ^a  

^a GERMAN RESEARCH CENTER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DFKI   (Germany)

Author keywords

Business activity monitoring; Business process intelligence; Complex event processing; Event driven architecture; Event driven business process management; Predictive analytics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921744155     PISSN: 14637154     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/BPMJ-07-2013-0092     Document Type: Article

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