Analysis of a collaborative workflow process with distributed actors

Information Systems Frontiers

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 307-322

  Reijers, Hajo A ^a   Song, Minseok ^a   Jeong, Byungduk ^b  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Case study; Performance evaluation; Process mining; Workflow management

Indexed keywords

CASE STUDY; COLLABORATIVE WORKFLOW; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; POSITIVE EFFECTS; PROCESS MINING; PROCESS PERFORMANCE; PROCESS-ORIENTED; TEAM MEMBERS; WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT; WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY; WORKFLOW PROCESS; WORKFLOW TECHNOLOGY;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MINING; WORK SIMPLIFICATION;

MANAGEMENT;

EID: 67651176141     PISSN: 13873326     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10796-008-9092-5     Document Type: Article

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