Workflow mining: A survey of issues and approaches

Data and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 237-267

  Van der Aalst, Wil M P ^a   Van Dongen, Boudewijn F ^a   Herbst, Joachim ^b   Maruster, Laura ^a   Schimm, Guido ^c   Weijters, A J M M ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b DAIMLER AG   (Germany)

^c OFFIS INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Data mining; Petri nets; Workflow management; Workflow mining

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; PETRI NETS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; XML;

WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT;

DATA MINING;

EID: 0141680986     PISSN: 0169023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-023X(03)00066-1     Document Type: Article

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