A multi-perspective methodology for modelling inter-enterprise business processes

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

Volumn 2465, Issue , 2002, Pages 403-416

  Taveter, Kuldar ^a,b   Wagner, Gerd ^c  

^a VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^b TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

^c EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS;

AGENT-ORIENTED METHODOLOGY; BUSINESS PROCESS; ELECTRONIC ADVERTISING; INTER-ENTERPRISE; MULTI-PERSPECTIVE; PROBLEM DOMAIN; REACTION RULES; TASK DECOMPOSITION;

INFORMATION USE;

EID: 84937407481     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-46140-x_31     Document Type: Conference Paper

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