Using process mining to analyze and improve process flexibility - Position paper

CEUR Workshop Proceedings

Volumn 236, Issue , 2006, Pages 168-177

  Van Der Aalst, Wil ^a,b   Günther, Christian ^a   Recker, Jan ^b   Reichert, Manfred ^c  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE PROCESS MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; CONFORMANCE CHECKING; DEGREE OF CONTROL; GROUPWARE APPLICATIONS; OPERATIONAL PROCESS; PROCESS FLEXIBILITY; PROCESS-INSTANCE LEVEL; WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS;

DATA MINING; GROUPWARE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MODEL CHECKING; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING; WORK SIMPLIFICATION;

PROCESS CONTROL;

EID: 84884737545     PISSN: 16130073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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