Business process mining: An industrial application

Information Systems

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 713-732

  van der Aalst, W M P ^a   Reijers, H A ^a   Weijters, A J M M ^a   van Dongen, B F ^a   Alves de Medeiros, A K ^a   Song, M ^a,b   Verbeek, H M W ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Business process analysis; Business process management; Data mining; Petri nets; Process mining; Social network analysis; Workflow management

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; DATA MINING; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

BUSINESS PROCESS ANALYSIS; BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT; PROCESS MINING; SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS; WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT;

PROCESS ENGINEERING;

EID: 34147190948     PISSN: 03064379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.is.2006.05.003     Document Type: Article

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