Mining event logs to support workflow resource allocation

Knowledge-Based Systems

Volumn 35, Issue , 2012, Pages 320-331

  Liu, Tingyu ^a   Cheng, Yalong ^a   Ni, Zhonghua ^a  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Association rules; Data mining; Process mining; Resource allocation; Workflow

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS PROCESS; COMPARATIVE EXPERIMENTS; CONFIDENCE MEASURE; CORRELATION MEASURES; DESIGN TIME; ENTERPRISE INFORMATION SYSTEM; PROCESS MINING; PRODUCT COST; PRODUCT QUALITY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION CONSTRAINTS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION PROBLEM; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; RESOURCE RECOMMENDATION; RESOURCE RESERVATIONS; STAFF ASSIGNMENTS; WORKFLOW; WORKFLOW TECHNOLOGY;

ASSOCIATION RULES; COST ACCOUNTING; DATA MINING; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

EID: 84866484442     PISSN: 09507051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.knosys.2012.05.010     Document Type: Article

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