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Citation
(2010), "Modern Business Process Automation: YAWL and Its Support Environment", Kybernetes, Vol. 39 No. 6. https://doi.org/10.1108/k.2010.06739fae.002
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2010, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Modern Business Process Automation: YAWL and Its Support Environment
Article Type: Book reports From: Kybernetes, Volume 39, Issue 6
A.H.M. ter Hofstede, W.M.P. van der Aalst,M. Adams and N. Russell (Editors),Springer,2010,Price: Hardcover $99.00,vi-664 pp., 321 illustrations,ISBN 978-3-642-03120-5
Keywords: Cybernetics, Management science
The field of business process management is of much current interest. This book, the publishers say, provides a comprehensive treatment of the field with a focus on business process automation. Its subtitle may not be familiar to all those with interests in management cybernetics and science.
YAWL means Yet Another Workflow Language and is the language on which this text is based. The book covers a wide range of topics at both the introductory and advanced levels, It is illustrated throughout and grounded in the language YAWL and the corresponding open-source support environment. It has four editors who combine to produce an informative study which is well paginated and illustrated.
Further information from springer.com about its content and current price.