Discovering business process similarities: An empirical study with SAP best practice business processes

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

Volumn 6470 LNCS, Issue , 2010, Pages 515-526

  Akkiraju, Rama ^a   Ivan, Anca ^a  

^a IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

business processes; discovery; process maps

Indexed keywords

BEST-PRACTICES; BUSINESS PROCESS; CROSS INDUSTRY; DISCOVERY; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS; LARGE ORGANIZATIONS; PROCESS ACTIVITIES; PROCESS MAPS; REAL-WORLD; SEMANTIC SIMILARITY;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

INDUSTRY;

EID: 78650766104     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-17358-5_35     Document Type: Conference Paper

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