Process Mining Crimes – A Threat to the Validity of Process Discovery Evaluations

2018 ◽  
pp. 3-19
Author(s):  
Jana-Rebecca Rehse ◽  
Peter Fettke
Keyword(s):  
Process Mining ◽  
Process Discovery

scholarly journals Role of Stochastic Petri Net (SPN) in Process Discovery for Modelling and Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Shabnam Shahzadi ◽  
Xianwen Fang ◽  
David Anekeya Alilah
Keyword(s):  
Petri Net ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Time Perspective ◽  
Process Mining ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Process Discovery ◽  
Stochastic Petri Net ◽  
Event Log ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Generalized Stochastic Petri Net

For exploitation and extraction of an event’s data that has vital information which is related to the process from the event log, process mining is used. There are three main basic types of process mining as explained in relation to input and output. These are process discovery, conformance checking, and enhancement. Process discovery is one of the most challenging process mining activities based on the event log. Business processes or system performance plays a vital role in modelling, analysis, and prediction. Recently, a memoryless model such as exponential distribution of the stochastic Petri net SPN has gained much attention in research and industry. This paper uses time perspective for modelling and analysis and uses stochastic Petri net to check the performance, evolution, stability, and reliability of the model. To assess the effect of time delay in firing the transition, stochastic reward net SRN model is used. The model can also be used in checking the reliability of the model, whereas the generalized stochastic Petri net GSPN is used for evaluation and checking the performance of the model. SPN is used to analyze the probability of state transition and the stability from one state to another. However, in process mining, logs are used by linking log sequence with the state and, by this, modelling can be done, and its relation with stability of the model can be established.

Discovering Process Horizontal Boundaries to Facilitate Process Comprehension

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pavlos Delias ◽  
Kleanthi Lakiotaki
Keyword(s):  
Process Model ◽  
Process Mining ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Quality Criteria ◽  
Large Set ◽  
Process Discovery ◽  
Event Log ◽  
Human Interpretation ◽  
Automated Discovery ◽  
Priori Information

Automated discovery of a process model is a major task of Process Mining that means to produce a process model from an event log, without any a-priori information. However, when an event log contains a large number of distinct activities, process discovery can be real challenging. The goal of this article is to facilitate process discovery in such cases when a process is expected to contain a large set of unique activities. To this end, this article proposes a clustering approach that recommends horizontal boundaries for the process. The proposed approach ultimately partitions the event log in a way that human interpretation efforts are decomposed. In addition, it makes automated discovery more efficient as well as effective by simultaneously considering two quality criteria: informativeness and robustness of the derived groups of activities. The authors conducted several experiments to test the behavior of the algorithm under different settings, and to compare it against other techniques. Finally, they provide a set of recommendations that may help process analysts during the process discovery endeavor.

scholarly journals Process mining: data analytics voor de accountant die wil weten hoe het nu echt zit

2015 ◽  
Vol 89 (10) ◽  
pp. 359-368
Author(s):  
Wim van der Aalst ◽  
Angelique Koopman
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Data Analytics ◽  
Process Mining ◽  
Event Data ◽  
Process Discovery ◽  
Compliance Checking

Steeds meer gebeurtenissen (“events”) worden geregistreerd en opgeslagen in IT-systemen. Op dit moment staat “Big Data” volop in de schijnwer- pers en denken we vaak aan bedrijven als Google en Facebook. Event data zijn ech- ter in elke organisatie te vinden en op elk niveau. Process mining is de verbindende schakel tussen data en proces. Dankzij process mining is het mogelijk tegelijkertijd prestatie-georiënteerde en compliance-georiënteerde vragen te stellen. Door pro- cesmodellen te koppelen aan event data kunnen knelpunten opgespoord worden en is precies te zien waar en waarom mensen afwijken van het normatieve proces. Dit artikel beschrijft twee basisvormen van process mining: ‘process discovery’ en ‘con- formance/compliance checking’.

scholarly journals A task-level parallelism approach for process discovery

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 2446
Author(s):  
Muktikanta Sahu ◽  
Rupjit Chakraborty ◽  
Gopal Krishna Nayak
Keyword(s):  
Process Model ◽  
Process Mining ◽  
Programming Model ◽  
Parallel Implementation ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
Process Models ◽  
Task Parallelism ◽  
Process Discovery ◽  
Event Logs ◽  
Computationally Intensive

Building process models from the available data in the event logs is the primary objective of Process discovery. Alpha algorithm is one of the popular algorithms accessible for ascertaining a process model from the event logs in process mining. The steps involved in the Alpha algorithm are computationally rigorous and this problem further manifolds with the exponentially increasing event log data. In this work, we have exploited task parallelism in the Alpha algorithm for process discovery by using MPI programming model. The proposed work is based on distributed memory parallelism available in MPI programming for performance improvement. Independent and computationally intensive steps in the Alpha algorithm are identified and task parallelism is exploited. The execution time of serial as well as parallel implementation of Alpha algorithm are measured and used for calculating the extent of speedup achieved. The maximum and minimum speedups obtained are 3.97x and 3.88x respectively with an average speedup of 3.94x.

An Integrated Approach for Discovering Process Models According to Business Process Types

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Zineb Lamghari
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Domain Knowledge ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Process Mining ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Process Models ◽  
Management Support ◽  
Event Data ◽  
Process Discovery ◽  
Discovery Algorithms

Process discovery technique aims at automatically generating a process model that accurately describes a Business Process (BP) based on event data. Related discovery algorithms consider recorded events are only resulting from an operational BP type. While the management community defines three BP types, which are: Management, Support and Operational. They distinguish each BP type by different proprieties like the main business process objective as domain knowledge. This puts forward the lack of process discovery technique in obtaining process models according to business process types (Management and Support). In this paper, we demonstrate that business process types can guide the process discovery technique in generating process models. A special interest is given to the use of process mining to deal with this challenge.

Process Mining: Realization and Optimization of Process Discovery Algorithm

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (12) ◽  
pp. 2566-2574
Author(s):  
G. I. Savin ◽  
A. D. Chopornyak ◽  
A. A. Rybakov ◽  
S. S. Shumilin
Keyword(s):  
Process Mining ◽  
Process Discovery
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