Universal artifacts: A new approach to business process management (BPM) systems

ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Sun, Yutian ^a   Su, Jianwen ^a   Yang, Jian ^b  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

BPaaS; Process collaboration; Workflow systems

Indexed keywords

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; MODELING LANGUAGES;

BPAAS; BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT; COLLABORATION MODELS; CONCEPTUAL DATA MODELING; CONSTRAINTS ENFORCEMENT; DYNAMIC MODIFICATIONS; PROCESS COLLABORATION; WORK-FLOW SYSTEMS;

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 84964456733     PISSN: 2158656X     EISSN: 21586578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2886104     Document Type: Article

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