Identifying business process activity mappings by optimizing behavioral similarity

18th Americas Conference on Information Systems 2012, AMCIS 2012

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 41-49

  Becker, Jörg ^a   Breuker, Dominic ^a   Delfmann, Patrick ^a   Dietrich, Hanns Alexander ^a   Steinhorst, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Behavioral similarity; Bisimulation; Business process model analysis

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL SIMILARITIES; BISIMULATIONS; BUSINESS PROCESS; BUSINESS PROCESS MODEL; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; OVERALL CONTROLS; TARGET VALUES;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION;

MAPPING;

EID: 84877915763     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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