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Business Process Management (BPM) aims to improve organizational activities and their outcomes by managing the underlying processes. To achieve this, it is often necessary to consider information from various sources, including unstructured…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Michael Grohs , Luka Abb , Nourhan Elsayed , Jana-Rebecca Rehse

Process discovery is one of the primary process mining tasks and starting point for process improvements using event data. Existing process discovery techniques aim to find process models that best describe the observed behavior. The focus…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Ali Norouzifar , Wil van der Aalst

Predictive business process monitoring methods exploit logs of completed cases of a process in order to make predictions about running cases thereof. Existing methods in this space are tailor-made for specific prediction tasks. Moreover,…

Applications · Statistics 2017-12-20 Niek Tax , Ilya Verenich , Marcello La Rosa , Marlon Dumas

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used to generate textual explanations of process models discovered from event logs. Producing explanations from large behavioral abstractions (e.g., directly-follows graphs or Petri nets) can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 P. van Oerle , R. H. Bemthuis , F. A. Bukhsh

Process mining is a research area focusing on the design of algorithms that can automatically provide insights into business processes. Among the most popular algorithms are those for automated process discovery, which have the ultimate…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Adriano Augusto , Jan Mendling , Maxim Vidgof , Bastian Wurm

Linear Programs (LP) are celebrated widely, particularly so in machine learning where they have allowed for effectively solving probabilistic inference tasks or imposing structure on end-to-end learning systems. Their potential might seem…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Matej Zečević , Florian Peter Busch , Devendra Singh Dhami , Kristian Kersting

Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs) model decision making under uncertainty. While there are many approaches to approximately solving POMDPs, we aim to address the problem of learning such models. In particular, we are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Aidan Curtis , Hao Tang , Thiago Veloso , Kevin Ellis , Joshua Tenenbaum , Tomás Lozano-Pérez , Leslie Pack Kaelbling

Process discovery aims at automatically creating process models on the basis of event data captured during the execution of business processes. Process discovery algorithms tend to use all of the event data to discover a process model. This…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Mohammadreza Fani Sani , Mathilde Boltenhagen , Wil van der Aalst

Traditional Business Process Management (BPM) struggles with rigidity, opacity, and scalability in dynamic environments while emerging Large Language Models (LLMs) present transformative opportunities alongside risks. This paper explores…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Peter Pfeiffer , Alexander Rombach , Maxim Majlatow , Nijat Mehdiyev

A core task in process mining is process discovery which aims to learn an accurate process model from event log data. In this paper, we propose to use (block-) structured programs directly as target process models so as to establish…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Dell Zhang , Alexander Kuhnle , Julian Richardson , Murat Sensoy

In this paper, we investigate the constraint typology of mixed-integer linear programming MILP formulations. MILP is a commonly used mathematical programming technique for modelling and solving real-life scheduling, routing, planning,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Vicky Mak-Hau , John Yearwood , William Moran

LLMs are increasingly used to make or support high-stakes decisions under uncertainty, where alignment depends not only on factual accuracy but on how models weigh tradeoffs between different outcomes. We present an empirical pipeline for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Khurram Yamin , Jingjing Tang , Eric Horvitz , Bryan Wilder

Business Process Management (BPM) has the potential to help companies manage and reduce their activities' negative social and environmental impacts. However, so far, only limited capabilities for analysing the sustainability impacts of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Andreas Fritsch

Process mining techniques can help organizations to improve their operational processes. Organizations can benefit from process mining techniques in finding and amending the root causes of performance or compliance problems. Considering the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Mahnaz Sadat Qafari , Wil van der Aalst

Despite huge successes reported by the field of machine learning, such as voice assistants or self-driving cars, businesses still observe very high failure rate when it comes to deployment of ML in production. We argue that part of the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Andrei Paleyes , Christian Cabrera , Neil D. Lawrence

In the realm of Business Process Management (BPM), process modeling plays a crucial role in translating complex process dynamics into comprehensible visual representations, facilitating the understanding, analysis, improvement, and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Humam Kourani , Alessandro Berti , Daniel Schuster , Wil M. P. van der Aalst

Event logs extracted from information systems offer a rich foundation for understanding and improving business processes. In many real-world applications, it is possible to distinguish between desirable and undesirable process executions,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Ali Norouzifar , Wil van der Aalst

A common challenge for improving business processes in large organizations is that business people in charge of the operations are lacking a fact-based understanding of the execution details, process variants, and exceptions taking place in…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Teemu Lehto , Markku Hinkka

In recent years, Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as a prominent area of interest across various research domains, including Process Mining (PM). Current applications in PM have predominantly centered on prompt engineering…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Rafael Seidi Oyamada , Jari Peeperkorn , Jochen De Weerdt , Johannes De Smedt

Discovering business rules from business process models are of advantage to ensure the compliance of business processes with business rules. Furthermore it provides the agility of business processes in case of business rules evolution.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-04-21 Thanh Thoa Pham Thi , Markus Helfert , Fakir Hossain , Thang Le Dinh