On the degree of behavioral similarity between business process models

EPK 2007 - Geschaftsprozessmanagement mit Ereignisgesteuerten Prozessketten, 6th Workshop der Gesellschaft fur Informatik e.V. (GI) und Treffen Ihres Arbeitkreises - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 39-57

  Mendlingy, Jan ^a   Van Dongenz, Boudewijn ^b   Van Der Aalstz, Wil ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACT REPRESENTATION; BEHAVIORAL SIMILARITIES; BUSINESS PROCESS MODEL; BUSINESS PROCESS MODELING; FORMAL MODELING LANGUAGE; PLUG-INS; PROCESS MODEL; PROTOTYPICAL IMPLEMENTATION; QUALITY ASPECTS; REFERENCE MODELS; VECTOR SPACE MODELS;

PETRI NETS; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84856588156     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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