The use of process mining in a business process simulation context: Overview and challenges

IEEE SSCI 2014 - 2014 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence - CIDM 2014: 2014 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 381-388

  Martin, Niels ^a   Depaire, Benoit ^a   Caris, An ^a  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

business process simulation; event log knowledge; process mining; simulation model construction

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS;

BUSINESS PROCESS SIMULATION; EVENT LOG KNOWLEDGE; GENERAL STRUCTURES; INTERNAL STRUCTURE; POTENTIAL VALUES; PROCESS MINING; RESEARCH CHALLENGES; SIMULATION MODEL;

DATA MINING;

EID: 84925089070     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CIDM.2014.7008693     Document Type: Conference Paper

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