An integrated and collaborative framework for business design: A knowledge engineering approach

Data and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 157-179

  Seshasai, Satwik ^a   Gupta, Amar ^b   Kumar, Ashwani ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Business process management; Design rationale; Knowledge engineering; Multi attribute tradespace; Utility function

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA MINING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; PROCESS CONTROL; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; TRAVELING SALESMAN PROBLEM;

BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT; DESIGN RATIONALE; MULTI-ATTRIBUTE TRADESPACE; PROCESS MANAGEMENT; UTILITY FUNCTION;

KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING;

EID: 9644275634     PISSN: 0169023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-023X(04)00085-0     Document Type: Article

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