Capturing and modelling work practice: A context-based methodological approach

Revue d'Intelligence Artificielle

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 669-688

  Zacarias, Marielba ^a,c   Serendero, Patrício ^a   Pinto, Helena S ^b,c   Tribolet, José ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALGARVE   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^c INESC   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Clustering; Context modelling; Enterprise modelling; Organisational analysis

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC DISCOVERY; CONTEXT-BASED; ENTERPRISE MODELLING; METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH; TASK DESIGN; WORK PATTERNS; WORK PRACTICES;

EID: 77954329383     PISSN: 0992499X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3166/ria.22.669-689     Document Type: Article

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