Process mining in the large : a tutorial

W.M.P. Aalst, van der

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Abstract

Recently, process mining emerged as a new scientific discipline on the interface between process models and event data. On the one hand, conventional Business Process Management (BPM) and Workflow Management (WfM) approaches and tools are mostly model-driven with little consideration for event data. On the other hand, Data Mining (DM), Business Intelligence (BI), and Machine Learning (ML) focus on data without considering end-to-end process models. Process mining aims to bridge the gap between BPM and WfM on the one hand and DM, BI, and ML on the other hand. Here, the challenge is to turn torrents of event data ("Big Data") into valuable insights related to process performance and compliance. Fortunately, process mining results can be used to identify and understand bottlenecks, inefficiencies, deviations, and risks. This tutorial paper introduces basic process mining techniques that can be used for process discovery and conformance checking. Moreover, some very general decomposition results are discussed. These allow for the decomposition and distribution of process discovery and conformance checking problems, thus enabling process mining in the large. Keywords: Process mining; Big Data; Process discovery; Conformance checking
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationBusiness Intelligence : Third European Summer School, eBISS 2013, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, July 7-12, 2013, Tutorial Lectures
EditorsE. Zimányi
Place of PublicationBerlin
PublisherSpringer
Pages33-76
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2014
Eventconference; Third European Summer School on Business Intelligence -
Duration: 1 Jan 2014 → …

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Business Information Processing
Volume172
ISSN (Print)1865-1348

Conference

Conferenceconference; Third European Summer School on Business Intelligence
Period1/01/14 → …
OtherThird European Summer School on Business Intelligence

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