Process-aware information systems: Lessons to be learned from process mining

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

Volumn 5460 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 1-26

  Van Der Aalst, Wil M P ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS PROCESS; CONTROL-FLOW; CRITICAL REFLECTIONS; ENTERPRISE INFORMATION SYSTEM; HANDLING SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SOURCES; NON-TRIVIAL; OPERATIONAL PROCESS; PROCESS MINING; PROCESS MODEL; PROCESS-AWARE INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS;

GRAPH THEORY; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MINING; PETRI NETS; PROCESS MONITORING; SECURITY OF DATA; WORK SIMPLIFICATION;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 70350274305     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-00899-3_1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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