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- ↑ Weske, Mathias. Business process management: concepts, languages, architectures. Springer, 2012.
- ↑ AI Genealogy Project : Eckhard Falkenberg Archived 2013-10-03 at the Wayback Machine Accessed September 18, 2013.
- ↑ Arthur H.M. ter Hofstede, Selected list of publications, December 2010.
