Improving process models by discovering decision points

Information Systems

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1037-1055

  Subramaniam, Sharmila ^a   Kalogeraki, Vana ^a   Gunopulos, Dimitrios ^a   Casati, Fabio ^b   Castellanos, Malu ^c   Dayal, Umeshwar ^c   Sayal, Mehmet ^c  

^a University of California Riverside   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^c HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification; Process mining; Workflow graph models

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING; DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; DATA STRUCTURES; ERROR ANALYSIS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

PROCESS MINING; TRANSFORMED MODELS; WORKFLOW GRAPH MODELS;

DECISION TABLES;

EID: 34347332203     PISSN: 03064379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.is.2006.11.001     Document Type: Article

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