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Process mining is a family of techniques for analysing business processes based on event logs extracted from information systems. Mainstream process mining tools are designed for intra-organizational settings, insofar as they assume that an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Gamal Elkoumy , Stephan A. Fahrenkrog-Petersen , Marlon Dumas , Peeter Laud , Alisa Pankova , Matthias Weildich

We formulate a novel technique for the detection of functional clusters in discrete event data. The advantage of this algorithm is that no prior knowledge of the number of functional groups is needed, as our procedure progressively combines…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2015-05-13 S. Feldt , J. Waddell , V. L. Hetrick , J. D. Berke , M. Zochowski

In this paper, we consider the applications of process mining in intrusion detection. We propose a novel process mining inspired algorithm to be used to preprocess data in intrusion detection systems (IDS). The algorithm is designed to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Yinzheng Zhong , John Y. Goulermas , Alexei Lisitsa

Event logs, as viewed in process mining, contain event data describing the execution of operational processes. Most process mining techniques take an event log as input and generate insights about the underlying process by analyzing the…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Daniel Schuster , Michael Martini , Sebastiaan J. van Zelst , Wil M. P. van der Aalst

Insider threats are one of today's most challenging cybersecurity issues that are not well addressed by commonly employed security solutions. Despite several scientific works published in this domain, we argue that the field can benefit…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Ivan Homoliak , Flavio Toffalini , Juan Guarnizo , Yuval Elovici , Martín Ochoa

Temporal event data are collected across a broad range of domains, and a variety of visual analytics techniques have been developed to empower analysts working with this form of data. These techniques generally display aggregate statistics…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-11-13 David Gotz , Jonathan Zhang , Wenyuan Wang , Joshua Shrestha , David Borland

Event data provide the main source of information for analyzing and improving processes in organizations. Process mining techniques capture the state of running processes w.r.t. various aspects, such as activity-flow and performance…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Mahsa Pourbafrani , Wil M. P. van der Aalst

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

Anomaly detection in event logs is a promising approach for intrusion detection in enterprise networks. By building a statistical model of usual activity, it aims to detect multiple kinds of malicious behavior, including stealthy tactics,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Corentin Larroche , Johan Mazel , Stephan Clémençon

Kernel traces are sequences of low-level events comprising a name and multiple arguments, including a timestamp, a process id, and a return value, depending on the event. Their analysis helps uncover intrusions, identify bugs, and find…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Quentin Fournier , Daniel Aloise , Seyed Vahid Azhari , François Tetreault

Event identification is increasingly recognized as crucial for enhancing the reliability, security, and stability of the electric power system. With the growing deployment of Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs) and advancements in data science,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Nima Taghipourbazargani , Lalitha Sankar , Oliver Kosut

Deep clustering uncovers hidden patterns and groups in complex time series data, yet its opaque decision-making limits use in safety-critical settings. This survey offers a structured overview of explainable deep clustering for time series,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Udo Schlegel , Gabriel Marques Tavares , Thomas Seidl

Modern machine learning research relies on relatively few carefully curated datasets. Even in these datasets, and typically in `untidy' or raw data, practitioners are faced with significant issues of data quality and diversity which can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Shoaib Ahmed Siddiqui , Nitarshan Rajkumar , Tegan Maharaj , David Krueger , Sara Hooker

We propose to leverage concept-level representations for complex event recognition in photographs given limited training examples. We introduce a novel framework to discover event concept attributes from the web and use that to extract…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-18 Unaiza Ahsan , Chen Sun , James Hays , Irfan Essa

Process discovery aims to learn process models from observed behaviors, i.e., event logs, in the information systems.The discovered models serve as the starting point for process mining techniques that are used to address performance and…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Tsung-Hao Huang , Wil M. P. van der Aalst

The IoT and Business Process Management (BPM) communities co-exist in many shared application domains, such as manufacturing and healthcare. The IoT community has a strong focus on hardware, connectivity and data; the BPM community focuses…

Object-Centric Process Mining (OCPM) enables business process analysis from multiple perspectives. For example, an educational path can be examined from the viewpoints of students, teachers, and groups. This analysis depends on…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Najmeh Miri , Shahrzad Khayatbashi , Jelena Zdravkovic , Amin Jalali

Context: Change mining enables organizations to understand the changes that occurred in their business processes. This allows them to enhance their business processes and adapt to dynamic environments. Therefore, change mining is becoming a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Arash Yadegari Ghahderijani , Hande Naz Turgay , Dimka Karastoyanova

Event Argument extraction refers to the task of extracting structured information from unstructured text for a particular event of interest. The existing works exhibit poor capabilities to extract causal event arguments like Reason and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Debanjana Kar , Sudeshna Sarkar , Pawan Goyal

The extraction, transformation, and loading of event logs from information systems is the first and the most expensive step in process mining. In particular, extracting event logs from popular ERP systems such as SAP poses major challenges,…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Alessandro Berti , Gyunam Park , Majid Rafiei , Wil van der Aalst