Knowledge-Intensive Processes: Characteristics, Requirements and Analysis of Contemporary Approaches

Journal on Data Semantics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 29-57

  Di Ciccio, Claudio ^a   Marrella, Andrea ^b   Russo, Alessandro ^b  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Case management; Knowledge intensive processes; Process flexibility; Process management systems; Process mining

Indexed keywords

EID: 84966542521     PISSN: 18612032     EISSN: 18612040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13740-014-0038-4     Document Type: Article

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