The use of process mining in business process simulation model construction structuring the field

Business and Information Systems Engineering

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 73-87

  Martin, Niels ^a   Depaire, Benoît ^a   Caris, An ^b  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b RESEARCH FOUNDATION FLANDERS FWO   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Business process simulation; Event log knowledge; Process mining; Simulation model construction

Indexed keywords

EID: 85007248658     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18670202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12599-015-0410-4     Document Type: Article

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