Scalable Enterprise Systems An Introduction to Recent Advances
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INTEGRATED SERIES IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS Professor Ramesh Sharda
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Oklahoma State University
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Other published titles in the series:
E-BUSINESS MANAGEMENT: Integration o/Web Technologies with Business Modelsl Michael J. Shaw VIRTUAL CORPORATE UNNERSITIES: A Matrix of Knowledge and Learning for the New Digital Dawn/Walter R.J. Baets & Gert Van der Linden
Scalable Enterprise Systems An Introduction to Recent Advances
Editors VITTAL PRABHU Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering The Pennsylvania State University University Park, Pennsylvania
SOUNDAR KUMARA Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering The Pennsylvania State University University Park, Pennsylvania
MANJUNATH KAMATH
School of Industrial Engineering and Management Oklahoma State University Stillwater, Oklahoma
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SCALABLE ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS: An Introduction to Recent Advances, edited by V. Prabhu, S. Kumara, and M. Kamath ISBN 978-1-4613-5052-1 ISBN 978-1-4615-0389-7 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4615-0389-7
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TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS ..................................................... xiii PREFACE ........................................................................... xxiii OVERVIEW ........ ............................................................... xxvii ACKN"0 WLEDGEMENTS ...................................................... xxxi Chapter 1. A REVIEW OF ENTERPRISE PROCESS MODELLING TECHNIQUES ........................................................................ 1
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Introduction ................................................................................... 1 1.1 Enterprise modelling ............................................................. 2 1.1.1 The GERAM Framework .............................................. 2 1.1.2 Enterprise process modelling ..............................
