Understanding the occurrence of errors in process models based on metrics

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4803 LNCS, Issue PART 1, 2007, Pages 113-130

  Mendling, Jan ^a   Neumann, Gustaf ^b   Van Der Aalst, Wil ^c  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

^c EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

EMPIRICAL RESULTS; MODELING GUIDELINES;

ERROR DETECTION;

EID: 38349041673     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-76848-7_9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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