A Comparison of XML Interchange Formats for Business Process Modelling

Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI), Proceedings - Series of the Gesellschaft fur Informatik (GI)

Volumn P-56, Issue , 2004, Pages 129-140

  Mendling, Jan ^a   Neumann, Gustaf ^a   Nüttgens, Markus ^b  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROCESS ENGINEERING; SPECIFICATIONS; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

BASED SPECIFICATION; BUSINESS PROCESS; BUSINESS PROCESS MODELING; DESIGN CRITERIA; INTERCHANGE FORMATS; META MODEL; PROCESS META MODELS; SUPERSETS;

XML;

EID: 85134588260     PISSN: 16175468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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