A semantic approach to the discovery of workflow activity patterns in event logs

International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 4-17

  Ferreira, Diogo R ^a   Thom, Lucinéia H ^b  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^b Universidade Federal   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Business process modelling; Ontology engineering; Process mining; Semantic reasoning; WAPs; Workflow activity patterns

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863979348     PISSN: 17418763     EISSN: 17418771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJBPIM.2012.047909     Document Type: Conference Paper

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