Policy-Driven Process Mapping (PDPM): Discovering process models from business policies

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 267-281

  Wang, Harry Jiannan ^a   Zhao, J Leon ^b   Zhang, Liang Jie ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c IBM RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Business policy; Business process management; Process design; Process mapping

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS POLICIES; BUSINESS POLICY; BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT; BUSINESS PROCESS MODEL; CRITICAL TASKS; FORMAL APPROACH; NOVEL METHODOLOGY; POLICY DOCUMENTS; POLICY DRIVEN; PROCESS DISCOVERY; PROCESS MAPPING; PROCESS MODEL; RESEARCH OBJECTIVES; SEMANTIC ERRORS; SYSTEMATIC METHODOLOGY;

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; MAPPING; PROCESS MONITORING; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS;

PROCESS DESIGN;

EID: 70350575334     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2009.08.006     Document Type: Article

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