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Long traces and large event logs that originate from sensors and prediction models are becoming more common in our data-rich world. In such circumstances, conformance checking, a key task in process mining, can become computationally…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Eli Bogdanov , Izack Cohen , Avigdor Gal

Conformance checking techniques allow us to quantify the correspondence of a process's execution, captured in event data, w.r.t., a reference process model. In this context, alignments have proven to be useful for calculating conformance…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Mohammadreza Fani Sani , Martin Kabierski , Sebastiaan J. van Zelst , 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

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

Various kinds of uncertainty can occur in event logs, e.g., due to flawed recording, data quality issues, or the use of probabilistic models for activity recognition. Stochastically known event logs make these uncertainties transparent by…

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

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

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

Process mining is a new emerging research trend over the last decade which focuses on analyzing the processes using event log and data. The raising integration of information systems for the operation of business processes provides the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-09-16 B. Kamala

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

Process mining is a scientific discipline that analyzes event data, often collected in databases called event logs. Recently, uncertain event logs have become of interest, which contain non-deterministic and stochastic event attributes that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Marco Pegoraro , Bianka Bakullari , Merih Seran Uysal , Wil M. P. van der Aalst

Stochastic process discovery is concerned with deriving a model capable of reproducing the stochastic character of observed executions of a given process, stored in a log. This leads to an optimisation problem in which the model's parameter…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Pierre Cry , Paolo Ballarini , András Horváth , Pascale Le Gall

Conformance is defined as a measure of distance between the behaviors of two dynamical systems. The notion of conformance can accelerate system design when models of varying fidelities are available on which analysis and control design can…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-15 Xin Qin , Navid Hashemi , Lars Lindemann , Jyotirmoy V. Deshmukh

Process mining analyzes and improves processes by examining transactional data stored in event logs, which record sequences of events with timestamps. However, the effectiveness of process mining, especially when combined with machine or…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Alessandro Padella , Francesco Vinci , Massimiliano de Leoni

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…

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

Developments in machine learning together with the increasing usage of sensor data challenge the reliance on deterministic logs, requiring new process mining solutions for uncertain, and in particular stochastically known, logs. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Eli Bogdanov , Izack Cohen , Avigdor Gal

Process discovery algorithms automatically extract process models from event logs, but high variability often results in complex and hard-to-understand models. To mitigate this issue, trace clustering techniques group process executions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Jari Peeperkorn , Johannes De Smedt , Jochen De Weerdt

Process mining supports the analysis of the actual behavior and performance of business processes using event logs. % such as, e.g., sales transactions recorded by an ERP system. An essential requirement is that every event in the log must…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Dina Bayomie , Claudio Di Ciccio , Jan Mendling

Quantitative properties of stochastic systems are usually specified in logics that allow one to compare the measure of executions satisfying certain temporal properties with thresholds. The model checking problem for stochastic systems with…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-05-11 Axel Legay , Benoit Delahaye