Bayesian Parameter Estimation in Green Business Process Management: A Case Study in Online-Advertising

Tobias-Benedikt Blask

Bayesian Parameter Estimation in Green Business Process Management: A Case Study in Online-Advertising

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Bayesian Parameter Estimation in Green Business Process Management : A Case Study in Online-Advertising. / Blask, Tobias-Benedikt.

INFORMATIK 2013 - Informatik angepasst an Mensch, Organisation und Umwelt. ed. / Matthias Hornbach. Bonn : Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V., 2013. p. 852-863 (Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI), Proceedings - Series of the Gesellschaft fur Informatik (GI); Vol. 220).

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Harvard

Blask, T-B 2013, Bayesian Parameter Estimation in Green Business Process Management: A Case Study in Online-Advertising. in M Hornbach (ed.), INFORMATIK 2013 - Informatik angepasst an Mensch, Organisation und Umwelt. Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI), Proceedings - Series of the Gesellschaft fur Informatik (GI), vol. 220, Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V., Bonn, pp. 852-863, 43. Annual Meeting of the German Informatics Society (GI) - Informatics 2013, Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, 16.09.13. <https://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/20801>

APA

Blask, T-B. (2013). Bayesian Parameter Estimation in Green Business Process Management: A Case Study in Online-Advertising. In M. Hornbach (Ed.), INFORMATIK 2013 - Informatik angepasst an Mensch, Organisation und Umwelt (pp. 852-863). (Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI), Proceedings - Series of the Gesellschaft fur Informatik (GI); Vol. 220). Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.. https://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/20801

Vancouver

Blask T-B. Bayesian Parameter Estimation in Green Business Process Management: A Case Study in Online-Advertising. In Hornbach M, editor, INFORMATIK 2013 - Informatik angepasst an Mensch, Organisation und Umwelt. Bonn: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. 2013. p. 852-863. (Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI), Proceedings - Series of the Gesellschaft fur Informatik (GI)).

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