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Process mining techniques enable the analysis of a wide variety of processes using event data. Among the available process mining techniques, most consider a single process perspective at a time-in the shape of a model or log. In this…
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The ability to assess the reputation of a member in a web community is a need addressed in many different ways according to the many different stages in which the nature of communities has evolved over time. In the case of reputation of…
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