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Process mining aims to comprehend and enhance business processes by analyzing event logs. Recently, object-centric process mining has gained traction by considering multiple objects interacting with each other in a process. This…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Alexandre Goossens , Johannes De Smedt , Jan Vanthienen

In complex processes, various events can happen in different sequences. The prediction of the next event given an a-priori process state is of importance in such processes. Recent methods have proposed deep learning techniques such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Julian Theis , Houshang Darabi

Process mining, a technique turning event data into business process insights, has traditionally operated on the assumption that each event corresponds to a singular case or object. However, many real-world processes are intertwined with…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Gyunam Park , Sevde Aydin , Cuneyt Ugur , Wil M. P. van der Aalst

A model of an information system describes its processes and how resources are involved in these processes to manipulate data objects. This paper presents an extension to the Petri nets formalism suitable for describing information systems…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Jan Martijn E. M. van der Werf , Andrey Rivkin , Marco Montali , Artem Polyvyanyy

Object-centric event data represent processes from the point of view of all the involved object types. This perspective has gained interest in recent years as it supports the analysis of processes that previously could not be adequately…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Alexandre Goossens , Adrian Rebmann , Johannes De Smedt , Jan Vanthienen , Han van der Aa

In process discovery, the goal is to find, for a given event log, the model describing the underlying process. While process models can be represented in a variety of ways, Petri nets form a theoretically well-explored description language…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Lisa Luise Mannel , Wil M. P. van der Aalst

Advances in Internet-of-Things (IoT) technologies have prompted the integration of IoT devices with business processes (BPs) in many organizations across various sectors, such as manufacturing, healthcare and smart spaces. The proliferation…

Much time in process mining projects is spent on finding and understanding data sources and extracting the event data needed. As a result, only a fraction of time is spent actually applying techniques to discover, control and predict the…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-01-09 Alessandro Berti , Wil van der Aalst

The automation and digitalization of business processes has resulted in large amounts of data captured in information systems, which can aid businesses in understanding their processes better, improve workflows, or provide operational…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Timo Rohrer , Anahita Farhang Ghahfarokhi , Mohamed Behery , Gerhard Lakemeyer , Wil M. P. van der Aalst

Object-centric process mining examines how processes interact with multiple co-evolving objects, and has gained great interest in recent years. However, object-centric event logs (OCELs) leave object relationships underspecified in several…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Alessandro Gianola , Zeeshan Hameed , Marco Montali , Anjo Seidel , Mathias Weske , Sarah Winkler

When multiple objects are involved in a process, there is an opportunity for processes to be discovered from different angles with new information that previously might not have been analyzed from a single object point of view. This does…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Alexandre Goossens , Johannes De Smedt , Jan Vanthienen , Wil van der Aalst

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

Object-centric processes (a.k.a. Artifact-centric processes) are implementations of a paradigm where an instance of one process is not executed in isolation but interacts with other instances of the same or other processes. Interactions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Riccardo Galanti , Massimiliano de Leoni , Nicolò Navarin , Alan Marazzi

Organizations execute decisions within business processes on a daily basis whilst having to take into account multiple stakeholders who might require multiple point of views of the same process. Moreover, the complexity of the information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Alexandre Goossens , Johannes De Smedt , Jan Vanthienen

Object-Centric Process Mining enables the analysis of complex operational behavior by capturing interactions among multiple business objects (e.g., orders, items, deliveries). These interactions are recorded using Object-Centric Event Data…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Shahrzad Khayatbashi , Majid Rafiei , Jiayuan Chen , Timotheus Kampik , Gregor Berg , Amin Jalali

Petri nets are a well-known model of concurrency and provide an ideal setting for the study of fundamental aspects in concurrent systems. Despite their simplicity, they still lack a satisfactory causally reversible semantics. We develop…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Hernán Melgratti , Claudio Antares Mezzina , Irek Ulidowski

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

Object-centric process mining is a new paradigm with more realistic assumptions about underlying data by considering several case notions, e.g., an order handling process can be analyzed based on order, item, package, and route case…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Amin Jalali

Process mining provides ways to analyze business processes. Common process mining techniques consider the process as a whole. However, in real-life business processes, different behaviors exist that make the overall process too complex to…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Anahita Farhang Ghahfarokhi , Alessandro Berti , Wil M. P. van der Aalst

Recent years have seen the emergence of object-centric process mining techniques. Born as a response to the limitations of traditional process mining in analyzing event data from prevalent information systems like CRM and ERP, these…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Alessandro Berti , Marco Montali , Wil M. P. van der Aalst