Discovering Interacting Artifacts from ERP Systems

IEEE Transactions on Services Computing

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 861-873

  Lu, Xixi ^a   Nagelkerke, Marijn ^b   Van De Wiel, Dennis ^b   Fahland, Dirk ^b  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b KPMG   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Artifact Centric Processes; ERP Systems; Log Conversion; Outlier Detection; Process Discovery; Relational Data

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; LIFE CYCLE; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ANALYTICAL MODELS; DATA MINING; DATA STRUCTURES; OBJECT RECOGNITION;

ARTIFACT-CENTRIC; ERP SYSTEM; OUTLIER DETECTION; PROCESS DISCOVERY; RELATIONAL DATA; BUSINESS DOCUMENTS; BUSINESS PROCESS; CONVERGENCE; DATA CONVERGENCE; ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING SYSTEMS; OBJECT ORIENTED MODEL; PROCESS EXECUTION;

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING;

EID: 84961778268     PISSN: 19391374     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSC.2015.2474358     Document Type: Article

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