Building ontology based knowledge maps to assist business process re-engineering

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 577-589

  Rao, Lila ^a   Mansingh, Gunjan ^b   Osei Bryson, Kweku Muata ^c  

^a The University of the West Indies   (Jamaica)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^c VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Business process reengineering; Knowledge management; Knowledge maps; Ontology

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS PROCESS; BUSINESS PROCESS RE-ENGINEERING; KNOWLEDGE MAP; KNOWLEDGE STRUCTURES; ONTOLOGY-BASED; ORGANIZATIONAL PROCESS;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT SCIENCE; REENGINEERING;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 84856021531     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2011.10.014     Document Type: Article

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