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Logs are a fundamental component of modern computer systems. They enable the analysis and monitoring teams to understand any abnormal or malicious behavior that may have occurred. The continuous increase in the volume of logs generated by…

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Process mining provides methods to analyse event logs generated by information systems during the execution of processes. It thereby supports the design, validation, and execution of processes in domains ranging from healthcare, through…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Mehdi Acheli , Daniela Grigori , Matthias Weidlich

Process mining offers techniques to exploit event data by providing insights and recommendations to improve business processes. The growing amount of algorithms for process discovery has raised the question of which algorithms perform best…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-06-20 Toon Jouck , Alfredo Bolt , Benoît Depaire , Massimiliano de Leoni , Wil M. P. van der Aalst

Event logs, as viewed in process mining, contain event data describing the execution of operational processes. Most process mining techniques take an event log as input and generate insights about the underlying process by analyzing the…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Daniel Schuster , Michael Martini , Sebastiaan J. van Zelst , Wil M. P. van der Aalst

Event data provide the main source of information for analyzing and improving processes in organizations. Process mining techniques capture the state of running processes w.r.t. various aspects, such as activity-flow and performance…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Mahsa Pourbafrani , Wil M. P. van der Aalst

Process mining is a field of computer science that deals with discovery and analysis of process models based on automatically generated event logs. Currently, many companies use this technology for optimization and improving their…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Antonina K. Begicheva , Irina A. Lomazova , Roman A. Nesterov

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

Predicting critical health outcomes such as patient mortality and hospital readmission is essential for improving survivability. However, healthcare datasets have many concurrences that create complexities, leading to poor predictions.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Negin Ashrafi , Armin Abdollahi , Greg Placencia , Maryam Pishgar

Large language models (LLMs) have shown to be valuable tools for tackling process mining tasks. Existing studies report on their capability to support various data-driven process analyses and even, to some extent, that they are able to…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Adrian Rebmann , Fabian David Schmidt , Goran Glavaš , Han van der Aa

Process mining techniques focus on extracting insight in processes from event logs. In many cases, events recorded in the event log are too fine-grained, causing process discovery algorithms to discover incomprehensible process models or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-20 Niek Tax , Natalia Sidorova , Reinder Haakma , Wil M. P. van der Aalst

Consensus Sequences of event logs are often used in process mining to quickly grasp the core sequence of events to be performed in a process, or to represent the backbone of the process for doing other analyses. However, it is still not…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-07-05 Zhichao Xu , Shuhong Chen

Predictive monitoring of business processes is concerned with the prediction of ongoing cases on a business process. Lately, the popularity of deep learning techniques has propitiated an ever-growing set of approaches focused on predictive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Efrén Rama-Maneiro , Juan C. Vidal , Manuel Lama

Process mining is a technique that performs an automatic analysis of business processes from a log of events with the promise of understanding how processes are executed in an organisation. Several models have been proposed to address this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-03-26 Catarina Moreira

Software systems generate massive, evolving, semi-structured logs that are central to reliability engineering and AIOps, yet difficult to analyze at scale under drift and limited labels. Recent advances in pretrained Transformer models and…

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Process mining provides techniques to improve the performance and compliance of operational processes. Although sometimes the term "workflow mining" is used, the application in the context of Workflow Management (WFM) and Business Process…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Alessandro Berti , Wil van der Aalst , David Zang , Magdalena Lang

System logs perform a critical function in software-intensive systems as logs record the state of the system and significant events in the system at important points in time. Unfortunately, log entries are typically created in an ad-hoc,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-01-30 Nathan Bosch , Jan Bosch

The current information age has increasingly required organizations to become data-driven. However, analyzing and managing raw data is still a challenging part of the data mining process. Even though we can find interview studies proposing…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Alessandra Milani , Fernando Paulovich , Isabel Manssour

With the widespread adoption of process mining in organizations, the field of process science is seeing an increase in the demand for ad-hoc analysis techniques of non-standard event data. An example of such data are uncertain event data:…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Marco Pegoraro

Simple process models are key for effectively communicating the outcomes of process mining. An important question in this context is whether the complexity of event logs used as inputs to process discovery algorithms can serve as a reliable…

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