User recommendations for the optimized execution of business processes

Data and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 86, Issue , 2013, Pages 61-84

  Barba, Irene ^a   Weber, Barbara ^b   Del Valle, Carmelo ^a   Jiménez Ramírez, Andrés ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Business intelligence; Business processes; Constraint programming; Flexible process aware information systems; Recommendations; Scheduling; Workflow management

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS PROCESS; CONSTRAINT PROGRAMMING; PROCESS-AWARE INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RECOMMENDATIONS; WORKFLOW MANAGEMENTS;

COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS; SCHEDULING; WORK SIMPLIFICATION;

CONSTRAINT THEORY;

EID: 84878115641     PISSN: 0169023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.datak.2013.01.004     Document Type: Article

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