Using process mining to learn from process changes in evolutionary systems

International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 61-78

  Günther, Christian W ^a   Rinderle Ma, Stefanie ^b   Reichert, Manfred ^c   van der Aalst, Wil M P ^a   Recker, Jan ^d  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^d QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Change mining; Process mining; Process aware information systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 47549115253     PISSN: 17418763     EISSN: 17418771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJBPIM.2008.019348     Document Type: Article

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