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Evolutionary Optimization of Business Process Designs

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Tiwari, A., Vergidis, K., Roy, R. (2007). Evolutionary Optimization of Business Process Designs. In: Dahal, K.P., Tan, K.C., Cowling, P.I. (eds) Evolutionary Scheduling. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 49. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-48584-1_19

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