A policy-based process mining framework: Mining business policy texts for discovering process models

Information Systems and e-Business Management

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 169-188

  Li, Jiexun ^a   Wang, Harry Jiannan ^b   Zhang, Zhu ^c   Zhao, J Leon ^d  

^a Drexel University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Business policy management; Business process management; Process mining; Text mining

Indexed keywords

EID: 74449084598     PISSN: 16179846     EISSN: 16179854     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10257-009-0112-x     Document Type: Article

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