English
Related papers

Related papers: Efficient Conformance Checking using Approximate A…

200 papers

In process mining, alignments quantify the degree of deviation between an observed event trace and a business process model and constitute the most important conformance checking technique. We study the algorithmic complexity of computing…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Christopher T. Schwanen , Wied Pakusa , Wil M. P. van der Aalst

Conformance checking is a set of process mining functions that compare process instances with a given process model. It identifies deviations between the process instances' actual behaviour ("as-is") and its modelled behaviour ("to-be").…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Sebastian Dunzer , Matthias Stierle , Martin Matzner , Stephan Baier

Process mining sheds new light on the relationship between process models and real-life processes. Process discovery can be used to learn process models from event logs. Conformance checking is concerned with quantifying the quality of a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Anja F. Syring , Niek Tax , Wil M. P. van der Aalst

Detecting undesired process behavior is one of the main tasks of process mining and various conformance-checking techniques have been developed to this end. These techniques typically require a normative process model as input, specifically…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Adrian Rebmann , Timotheus Kampik , Carl Corea , Han van der Aa

Process Mining has recently gained popularity in healthcare due to its potential to provide a transparent, objective and data-based view on processes. Conformance checking is a sub-discipline of process mining that has the potential to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-23 An Nguyen , Wenyu Zhang , Leo Schwinn , Bjoern Eskofier

Conformance checking, one of the main process mining operations, aims to identify discrepancies between a process model and an event log. The model represents the expected behaviour, whereas the event log represents the actual process…

Conformance checking techniques aim to collate observed process behavior with normative/modeled process models. The majority of existing approaches focuses on completed process executions, i.e., offline conformance checking. Recently, novel…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Daniel Schuster , Gero J. Kolhof

In many engineering applications, processes must be followed precisely, making conformance checking between event logs and declarative process models crucial for ensuring adherence to desired behaviors. This is a critical area where…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Jacobo Casas-Ramos , Manuel Lama , Manuel Mucientes

The design of a system and its implementation are two tasks often carried out by different individuals on a development team, and can occur weeks or months apart. This creates a potential for divergence between real behavior and the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Reid Anderson , Hassan Reza

Track detectors in high energy physics experiments require an accurate determination of a large number of alignment parameters. A general method has been developed, which allows the determination of up to several thousand alignment…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Volker Blobel , Claus Kleinwort

Approximate pattern matching is a natural and well-studied problem on strings: Given a text $T$, a pattern $P$, and a threshold $k$, find (the starting positions of) all substrings of $T$ that are at distance at most $k$ from $P$. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Panagiotis Charalampopoulos , Tomasz Kociumaka , Philip Wellnitz

Conformance checking quantifies the deviations between a set of traces in a given process log and a set of possible traces defined by a process model. Current approaches mostly focus on added or missing events. Lately, multi-perspective…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Florian Stertz , Juergen Mangler , Stefanie Rinderle-Ma

Pattern matching is a fundamental process in almost every scientific domain. The problem involves finding the positions of a given pattern (usually of short length) in a reference stream of data (usually of large length). The matching can…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Anas Al-okaily , Abdelghani Tbakhi

The strong impulse to digitize processes and operations in companies and enterprises have resulted in the creation and automatic recording of an increasingly large amount of process data in information systems. These are made available in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Marco Pegoraro , Merih Seran Uysal , Wil M. P. van der Aalst

Conformance checking is a crucial aspect of process mining, where the main objective is to compare the actual execution of a process, as recorded in an event log, with a reference process model, e.g., in the form of a Petri net or a BPMN.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Majid Rafiei , Mahsa Pourbafrani , Wil M. P. van der Aalst

Alignments are a well-known process mining technique for reconciling system logs and normative process models. Evidence of certain behaviors in a real system may only be present in one representation - either a log or a model - but not in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Dominique Sommers , Natalia Sidorova , Boudewijn van Dongen

In this paper, we propose DeepAlign, a novel approach to multi-perspective process anomaly correction, based on recurrent neural networks and bidirectional beam search. At the core of the DeepAlign algorithm are two recurrent neural…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Timo Nolle , Alexander Seeliger , Nils Thoma , Max Mühlhäuser

This paper presents a command-line tool, called Entropia, that implements a family of conformance checking measures for process mining founded on the notion of entropy from information theory. The measures allow quantifying classical…

The business processes of organizations may deviate from normal control flow due to disruptive anomalies, including unknown, skipped, and wrongly-ordered activities. To identify these control-flow anomalies, process mining can check…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Francesco Vitale , Marco Pegoraro , Wil M. P. van der Aalst , Nicola Mazzocca

The execution of (business) processes generates valuable traces of event data in the information systems employed within companies. Recently, approaches for monitoring the correctness of the execution of running processes have been…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Daniel Schuster , Sebastiaan J. van Zelst