Service mining: Using process mining to discover, check, and improve service behavior

IEEE Transactions on Services Computing

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 525-535

  Aalst, Wil Van Der ^a,b  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

business process management; conformance checking; Process mining; service discovery

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT; BUSINESS PROCESS MODEL; CONFORMANCE CHECKING; EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES; PROCESS MINING; SERVICE DISCOVERY; SERVICE ORIENTATION; SERVICE ORIENTED SYSTEMS;

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; QUALITY OF SERVICE; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING; WEB SERVICES;

DATA MINING;

EID: 84880894144     PISSN: 19391374     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSC.2012.25     Document Type: Article

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