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Alignment-based conformance checking is the state-of-the-art approach for comparing observed process executions with normative process models. The standard exact solution relies on an A*-based heuristic search, which can exhibit exponential…

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In recent years, process mining emerged as a proven technology to analyze and improve operational processes. An expanding range of organizations using process mining in their daily operation brings a broader spectrum of processes to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Viki Peeva , Wil M. P. van der Aalst

Anomalies are often indicators of malfunction or inefficiency in various systems such as manufacturing, healthcare, finance, surveillance, to name a few. While the literature is abundant in effective detection algorithms due to this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Xueying Ding , Nikita Seleznev , Senthil Kumar , C. Bayan Bruss , Leman Akoglu

In order to allow machine learning algorithms to extract knowledge from raw data, these data must first be cleaned, transformed, and put into machine-appropriate form. These often very time-consuming phase is referred to as preprocessing.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-19 David Cemernek

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

The discipline of process mining aims to study processes in a data-driven manner by analyzing historical process executions, often employing Petri nets. Event data, extracted from information systems (e.g. SAP), serve as the starting point…

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

Modern information systems are able to collect event data in the form of event logs. Process mining techniques allow to discover a model from event data, to check the conformance of an event log against a reference model, and to perform…

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

Process discovery aims to learn a process model from observed process behavior. From a user's perspective, most discovery algorithms work like a black box. Besides parameter tuning, there is no interaction between the user and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Daniel Schuster , Sebastiaan J. van Zelst , Wil M. P. van der Aalst

Process mining (PM) aims to construct, from event logs, process maps that can help discover, automate, improve, and monitor organizational processes. Robotic process automation (RPA) uses software robots to perform some tasks usually…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Najah Mary El-Gharib , Daniel Amyot

Mistake detection in procedural tasks is essential for building intelligent systems that support learning and task execution. Existing approaches primarily analyze how an action is performed, while overlooking what it produces, i.e., the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Wenliang Guo , Yujiang Pu , Yu Kong

The problem of detecting anomalies in multiple processes is considered. We consider a composite hypothesis case, in which the measurements drawn when observing a process follow a common distribution with an unknown parameter (vector), whose…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Bar Hemo , Tomer Gafni , Kobi Cohen , Qing Zhao

Process analytics approaches allow organizations to support the practice of Business Process Management and continuous improvement by leveraging all process-related data to extract knowledge, improve process performance and support…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Asjad Khan , Aditya Ghose , Hoa Dam , Arsal Syed

Unraveling the causal relationships among the execution of process activities is a crucial element in predicting the consequences of process interventions and making informed decisions regarding process improvements. Process discovery…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Fabiana Fournier , Lior Limonad , Inna Skarbovsky , Yuval David

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

Many applications of large language models (LLMs) require deductive reasoning, yet models frequently produce incorrect or redundant inference steps. We frame natural language inference as a search problem where the final answer is the valid…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Andreas Opedal , Francesco Ignazio Re , Abulhair Saparov , Mrinmaya Sachan , Bernhard Schölkopf , Ryan Cotterell

Dynamic model inference techniques have been the center of many research projects recently. There are now multiple open source implementations of state-of-the-art algorithms, which provide basic abstraction and merging capabilities. Most of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-04-01 Mohammad Jafar Mashhadi , Hadi Hemmati

Process mining aims to extract and analyze insights from event logs, yet algorithm metric results vary widely depending on structural event log characteristics. Existing work often evaluates algorithms on a fixed set of real-world event…

The subject of this paper is to study conformance checking for timed models, that is, process models that consider both the sequence of events in a process as well as the timestamps at which each event is recorded. Time-aware process mining…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Thomas Chatain , Neha Rino

Machine learning models are routinely integrated into process mining pipelines to carry out tasks like data transformation, noise reduction, anomaly detection, classification, and prediction. Often, the design of such models is based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Paolo Ceravolo , Sylvio Barbon Junior , Ernesto Damiani , Wil van der Aalst

Process mining is concerned with the analysis, understanding and improvement of business processes. Process discovery, i.e. discovering a process model based on an event log, is considered the most challenging process mining task.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-09 S. J. van Zelst , B. F. van Dongen , W. M. P. van der Aalst , H. M. W. Verbeek