Business process model merging: An approach to business process consolidation

ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  La Rosa, Marcello ^a   Dumas, Marlon ^a   Uba, Reina ^b   Dijkman, Remco ^c  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^c EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Business process model; Graph matching; Model merging; Variability

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS PROCESS MODEL; EXTRACTION ALGORITHMS; GRAPH MATCHINGS; INSURANCE COMPANIES; MERGING ALGORITHMS; MODEL MERGING; MULTIPLE APPLICATIONS; VARIABILITY;

ALGORITHMS; EXTRACTION; INSURANCE; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; MERGING; PATTERN MATCHING;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 84876124384     PISSN: 1049331X     EISSN: 15577392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2430545.2430547     Document Type: Article

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