Business process monitoring and alignment: An approach based on the user requirements notation and business intelligence tools

Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Requirements Engineering, WER 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 80-91

  Pourshahid, Alireza ^a   Amyot, Daniel ^a   Chen, Pengfei ^b   Weiss, Michael ^b   Forster, Alan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS ACTIVITIES; BUSINESS GOALS; BUSINESS PROCESS MONITORING; HEALTHCARE SECTORS; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS; MODELING TOOL; MONITORING PROCESS; ON-LINE PROCESS MONITORING; PROCESS GOALS; PROCESS REQUIREMENTS; USER REQUIREMENTS NOTATION;

ALIGNMENT; BENCHMARKING; DATA WAREHOUSES; HEALTH CARE; PROCESS CONTROL; PROCESS MONITORING; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING;

MANAGEMENT SCIENCE;

EID: 50249135882     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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