Evolutionary multi-objective optimization of business processes

2006 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 3091-3097

  Tiwari, Ashutosh ^a   Vergidis, Kostas ^a   Majeed, Basim ^b  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b BT ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROCESS CONTROL;

GENERIC BUSINESS PROCESS MODELS; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; PROBLEM COMPLEXITY;

MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 34547291765     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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