Advanced topics in workflow management: Issues, requirements, and solutions

Journal of Integrated Design and Process Science

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 49-77

  Van der Aalst, Wil M P ^a   Weske, Mathias ^b   Wirtz, Guido ^c  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Applied workflow systems; Flexible workflow management; Workflow analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 85013586343     PISSN: 10920617     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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