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Data-driven analysis of business processes has a long tradition in research. However, recently the term of process mining is mostly used when referring to data-driven process analysis. As a consequence, awareness for the many facets of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Matthias Stierle , Karsten Kraume , Martin Matzner

Workflow technology is widely used to facilitate the business process in enterprise information systems (EIS), and it has the potential to reduce design time, enhance product quality and decrease product cost. However, significant…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-09-19 Tingyu Liu , Yalong Cheng , Zhonghua Ni

The global issue of overcrowding in emergency departments (ED) necessitates the analysis of patient flow through ED to enhance efficiency and alleviate overcrowding. However, traditional analytical methods are time-consuming and costly. The…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Jia Wei , Chun Ouyang , Bemali Wickramanayake , Zhipeng He , Keshara Perera , Catarina Moreira

In this short paper, we explore the enrichment of event logs with data from wearable devices. We discuss three approaches: (1) treating wearable data as event attributes, linking them directly to individual events, (2) treating wearable…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Vinicius Stein Dani , Xixi Lu , Iris Beerepoot

Business processes need to have certain constraints such that they can lead to sustainable outcomes. These constraints can be manifold and their adherence has to be monitored. In the past compliance checking has been applied in several…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Clemens Schreiber

Logging is essential in software development, helping developers monitor system behavior and aiding in debugging applications. Given the ability of large language models (LLMs) to generate natural language and code, researchers are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Mayra Sofia Ruiz Rodriguez , SayedHassan Khatoonabadi , Emad Shihab

Text preprocessing is often the first step in the pipeline of a Natural Language Processing (NLP) system, with potential impact in its final performance. Despite its importance, text preprocessing has not received much attention in the deep…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-24 Jose Camacho-Collados , Mohammad Taher Pilehvar

Process mining provides various algorithms to analyze process executions based on event data. Process discovery, the most prominent category of process mining techniques, aims to discover process models from event logs, however, it leads to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Anahita Farhang Ghahfarokhi , Fatemeh Akoochekian , Fareed Zandkarimi , Wil M. P. van der Aalst

Advances in AI, and especially machine learning, are increasingly drawing research interest and efforts towards predictive process monitoring, the subfield of process mining (PM) that concerns predicting next events, process outcomes and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Hans Weytjens , Jochen De Weerdt

This paper advocates for guiding an effective system implementation approach at a business process level. It details a case study of a food product manufacturer that transitioned to a new local information system. 41 units' data (10160…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-30 Negin Maddah

More and more business activities are performed using information systems. These systems produce such huge amounts of event data that existing systems are unable to store and process them. Moreover, few processes are in steady-state and due…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-04-28 Andrea Burattin , Alessandro Sperduti , 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 techniques help to improve processes using event data. Such data are widely available in information systems. However, they often contain highly sensitive information. For example, healthcare information systems record event…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Majid Rafiei , Wil M. P. van der Aalst

Considering processes of a business in a recommender system is highly advantageous. Although most studies in the business process analysis domain are of descriptive and predictive nature, the feasibility of constructing a process-aware…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Mansoureh Yari Eili , Jalal Rezaeenour , Mohammadreza Fani Sani

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

Several decision points exist in business processes (e.g., whether a purchase order needs a manager's approval or not), and different decisions are made for different process instances based on their characteristics (e.g., a purchase order…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Gyunam Park , Aaron Küsters , Mara Tews , Cameron Pitsch , Jonathan Schneider , Wil M. P. van der Aalst

Logging code plays an important role in software systems by recording key events and behaviors, which are essential for debugging and monitoring. However, insecure logging practices can inadvertently expose sensitive information or enable…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-23 He Yang Yuan , Xin Wang , Kundi Yao , An Ran Chen , Zishuo Ding , Zhenhao Li

Data preprocessing is often paid little attention in machine learning, despite its potentially significant impact on model performance. While automated machine learning pipelines are starting to recognize and integrate data preprocessing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yousef Koka , David Selby , Gerrit Großmann , Kathan Pandya , Sebastian Vollmer

Process mining is a research field focused on the analysis of event data with the aim of extracting insights related to dynamic behavior. Applying process mining techniques on data from smart home environments has the potential to provide…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-01 Niek Tax , Emin Alasgarov , Natalia Sidorova , Wil M. P. van der Aalst , Reinder Haakma

Much of the work in metalearning has focused on classifier selection, combined more recently with hyperparameter optimization, with little concern for data preprocessing. Yet, it is generally well accepted that machine learning applications…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Brandon Schoenfeld , Christophe Giraud-Carrier , Mason Poggemann , Jarom Christensen , Kevin Seppi