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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 models are, like event data, first-class citizens in most process mining approaches. Several process modeling formalisms have been proposed and used, e.g., Petri nets, BPMN, and process trees. Despite their frequent use, little…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Gero Kolhof , Sebastiaan J. van Zelst

Conformance checking techniques aim to provide diagnostics on the conformity between process models and event data. Conventional methods, such as trace alignments, assume strict total ordering of events, leading to inaccuracies when…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Ariba Siddiqui , Wil M. P. van der Aalst , Daniel Schuster

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

We propose a procedure to build a decision tree which approximates the performance of complex machine learning models. This single approximation tree can be used to interpret and simplify the predicting pattern of random forests (RFs) and…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-10-31 Yichen Zhou , Giles Hooker

Finding a minimum spanning tree (MST) for $n$ points in an arbitrary metric space is a fundamental primitive for hierarchical clustering and many other ML tasks, but this takes $\Omega(n^2)$ time to even approximate. We introduce a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Nate Veldt , Thomas Stanley , Benjamin W. Priest , Trevor Steil , Keita Iwabuchi , T. S. Jayram , Geoffrey Sanders

Process mining is concerned with deriving formal models capable of reproducing the behaviour of a given organisational process by analysing observed executions collected in an event log. The elements of an event log are finite sequences…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Pierre Cry , András Horváth , Paolo Ballarini , Pascal Le Gall

Aligning AI systems with organizational decision-making is typically framed as a single-target problem: make the model behave like the organization. We argue this framing obscures a deeper pluralistic challenge. We rely on a decision-policy…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Niklas Weller , Emilio Barkett

Mappings to structured output spaces (strings, trees, partitions, etc.) are typically learned using extensions of classification algorithms to simple graphical structures (eg., linear chains) in which search and parameter estimation can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2009-07-07 Hal Daumé , Daniel Marcu

Conformance checking is a fundamental task of process mining, which quantifies the extent to which the observed process executions match a normative process model. The state-of-the-art approaches compute alignments by exploring the state…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Douwe Geurtjens , Xixi Lu

Conformance checking techniques allow us to evaluate how well some exhibited behaviour, represented by a trace of monitored events, conforms to a specified process model. Modern monitoring and activity recognition technologies, such as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Jiawei Zheng , Petros Papapanagiotou , Jacques D. Fleuriot

Process mining is a relatively new subject which builds a bridge between process modelling and data mining. An exclusive choice in a process model usually splits the process into different branches. However, in some processes, it is…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Yang Lu , Qifan Chen , Simon Poon

Process mining techniques including process discovery, conformance checking, and process enhancement provide extensive knowledge about processes. Discovering running processes and deviations as well as detecting performance problems and…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Mahsa Pourbafrani , Shuai Jiao , Wil M. P. van der Aalst

Attack Trees are a graphical model of security used to study threat scenarios. While visually appealing and supported by solid theories and effective tools, one of their main drawbacks remains the amount of effort required by security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Alyzia-Maria Konsta , Gemma Di Federico , Alberto Lluch Lafuente , Andrea Burattin

Consensus maximization is widely used for robust fitting in computer vision. However, solving it exactly, i.e., finding the globally optimal solution, is intractable. A* tree search, which has been shown to be fixed-parameter tractable, is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Zhipeng Cai , Tat-Jun Chin , Vladlen Koltun

Complex networks are frequently employed to model physical or virtual complex systems. When certain entities exist across multiple systems simultaneously, unveiling their corresponding relationships across the networks becomes crucial. This…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-04-16 Rui Tang , Ziyun Yong , Shuyu Jiang , Xingshu Chen , Yaofang Liu , Yi-Cheng Zhang , Gui-Quan Sun , Wei Wang

This paper presents a new approach to statistical similarity assessment based on sequence alignment. The algorithm performs mutual matching of two random sequences by successively searching for common elements and by applying sequence…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-09 Jakub Nikonowicz , Łukasz Matuszewski , Paweł Kubczak

Processes tend to interact with other processes and operate on various objects of different types. These objects can influence each other creating dependencies between sub-processes. Analyzing the conformance of such complex processes…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Lukas Liss , Jan Niklas Adams , Wil M. P. van der Aalst

We present new algorithms and fast implementations to find efficient approximations for modelling stochastic processes. For many numerical computations it is essential to develop finite approximations for stochastic processes. While the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-03 Kipngeno Benard Kirui , Georg Ch. Pflug , Alois Pichler

Prompting language models (LMs) is the main interface for applying them to new tasks. However, for smaller LMs, prompting provides low accuracy compared to gradient-based finetuning. Tree Prompting is an approach to prompting which builds a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 John X. Morris , Chandan Singh , Alexander M. Rush , Jianfeng Gao , Yuntian Deng