Supervised learning of process discovery techniques using graph neural networks

Sommers, D., Menkovski, V., & Fahland, D. (2023). Supervised learning of process discovery techniques using graph neural networks. Information Systems, 115, Article 102209. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.is.2023.102209 Abstract Automatically discovering a process model from an event log is the prime problem in process mining. This task is so far approached as an unsupervised learning problem through graph synthesis Read More …

Inferring Missing Entity Identifiers from Context Using Event Knowledge Graphs

Swevels, A., Dijkman, R. M., & Fahland, D. (2023). Inferring Missing Entity Identifiers from Context Using Event Knowledge Graphs. In C. Di Francescomarino, A. Burattin, C. Janiesch, & S. Sadiq (Eds.), Business Process Management: 21st International Conference, BPM 2023, Utrecht, The Netherlands, September 11–15, 2023, Proceedings (pp. 180-197). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS); Vol. Read More …

AI-augmented Business Process Management Systems: A Research Manifesto

Dumas, M., Fournier, F., Limonad, L., Marrella, A., Montali, M., Rehse, J. R., Accorsi, R., Calvanese, D., De Giacomo, G., Fahland, D., Gal, A., La Rosa, M., Völzer, H., & Weber, I. (2023). AI-augmented Business Process Management Systems: A Research Manifesto. ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems, 14(1), Article 11. https://doi.org/10.1145/3576047 Abstract AI-augmented Business Process Read More …

Aggregating Event Knowledge Graphs for Task Analysis

Klijn, E. L., Mannhardt, F., & Fahland, D. (2023). Aggregating Event Knowledge Graphs for Task Analysis. In M. Montali, A. Senderovich, & M. Weidlich (Eds.), Process Mining Workshops – ICPM 2022 International Workshops, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 493-505). (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; Vol. 468 LNBIP). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27815-0_36 Abstract Aggregation of event data is a Read More …

Exploring Task Execution Patterns in Event Graphs

Klijn, E. L., Mannhardt, F., & Fahland, D. (2021). Exploring Task Execution Patterns in Event Graphs. In M. Jans, G. Janssenswillen, A. Kalenkova , & F. M. Maggi (Eds.), ICPM 2021 Doctoral Consortium and Demo Track 2021: Proceedings of the ICPM Doctoral Consortium and Demo Track 2021 co-located with 10th International Conference on Process Mining Read More …

Process tree discovery using a probabilistic inductive miner

Scheepens, R. J., Brons, D., & Fahland, D. (2022). Process tree discovery using a probabilistic inductive miner. (Patent No. US11500756B2). https://patents.google.com/patent/US20220075705A1/en Abstract Systems and methods for generating a process tree of a process are provided. An event log of the process is received. It is determined whether a base case applies to the event log Read More …

Process Mining over Multiple Behavioral Dimensions with Event Knowledge Graphs

Fahland, D. (2022). Process Mining over Multiple Behavioral Dimensions with Event Knowledge Graphs. In Process Mining Handbook (pp. 274-319). (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; Vol. 448). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08848-3_9 Abstract Classical process mining relies on the notion of a unique case identifier, which is used to partition event data into independent sequences of events. In this Read More …

Multi-dimensional Process Analysis

Fahland, D. (2022). Multi-dimensional Process Analysis. In C. Di Ciccio, R. Dijkman, A. del Río Ortega, & S. Rinderle-Ma (Eds.), Business Process Management – 20th International Conference, BPM 2022, Proceedings: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Vol. 13420, pp. 27-33). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Read More …

Discover Context-Rich Local Process Models (Extended Abstract)

Brunings, M., Fahland, D., & Verbeek, E. (2022). Discover Context-Rich Local Process Models (Extended Abstract). In M. Hassani, A. Koschmider, M. Comuzzi, F. M. Maggi, & L. Pufahl (Eds.), ICPM 2022 Doctoral Consortium and Demo Track 2022: Proceedings of the ICPM Doctoral Consortium and Demo Track 2022 (ICPM-D 2022), Bolzano, Italy, October, 2022 (pp. 100-103). Read More …

Defining Meaningful Local Process Models

Brunings, M., Fahland, D., & van Dongen, B. (2022). Defining Meaningful Local Process Models. In M. Koutny, F. Kordon, & D. Moldt (Eds.), Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XVI (pp. 24-48). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 13220 LNCS). Read More …

CPN IDE: An Extensible Replacement for CPN Tools That Uses Access/CPN

Verbeek, E., & Fahland, D. (2021). CPN IDE: An Extensible Replacement for CPN Tools That Uses Access/CPN. In M. Jans, G. Janssenswillen, A. Kalenkova , & F. M. Maggi (Eds.), ICPM 2021 Doctoral Consortium and Demo Track 2021: Proceedings of the ICPM Doctoral Consortium and Demo Track 2021 co-located with 10th International Conference on Process Read More …

Augmented Business Process Management Systems: A Research Manifesto

Dumas, M., Fournier, F., Limonad, L., Marrella, A., Montali, M., Rehse, J-R., Accorsi, R., Calvanese, D., Giacomo, G. D., Fahland, D., Gal, A., Rosa, M. L., Völzer, H., & Weber, I. (2022). Augmented Business Process Management Systems: A Research Manifesto. CoRR, abs/2201.12855. https://dblp.org/db/journals/corr/corr2201.html#abs-2201-12855

Inferring Unobserved Events in Systems With Shared Resources and Queues

Fahland, D., Denisov, V., & van der Aalst, W. M. P. (2021). Inferring Unobserved Events in Systems With Shared Resources and Queues. Fundamenta Informaticae, 183(3-4), 203-242. https://doi.org/10.3233/FI-2021-2087 Abstract To identify the causes of performance problems or to predict process behavior, it is essential to have correct and complete event data. This is particularly important for Read More …

Multi-Dimensional Event Data in Graph Databases

Esser, S., & Fahland, D. (2021). Multi-Dimensional Event Data in Graph Databases. Journal on Data Semantics, 10(1-2), 109–141. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13740-021-00122-1 Abstract Process event data is usually stored either in a sequential process event log or in a relational database. While the sequential, single-dimensional nature of event logs aids querying for (sub)sequences of events based on temporal Read More …

Process Discovery Using Graph Neural Networks

Sommers, D., Menkovski, V., & Fahland, D. (2021). Process Discovery Using Graph Neural Networks. In C. Di Ciccio, C. Di Francescomarino, & P. Soffer (Eds.), Proceedings – 2021 3rd International Conference on Process Mining, ICPM 2021 (pp. 40-47) https://doi.org/10.1109/ICPM53251.2021.9576849 Abstract Automatically discovering a process model from an event log is the prime problem in process Read More …

Striking a new Balance in Accuracy and Simplicity with the Probabilistic Inductive Miner

Brons, D., Scheepens, R., & Fahland, D. (2021). Striking a new Balance in Accuracy and Simplicity with the Probabilistic Inductive Miner. In C. Di Ciccio, C. Di Francescomarino, & P. Soffer (Eds.), Proceedings – 2021 3rd International Conference on Process Mining, ICPM 2021 (pp. 32-39) https://doi.org/10.1109/ICPM53251.2021.9576864 Abstract Numerous process discovery techniques exist for generating process Read More …

Business Process Management – 18th International Conference, BPM 2020, Seville, Spain, September 13-18, 2020, Proceedings

Fahland, D., Ghidini, C., Becker, J., & Dumas, M. (Eds.) (2020). Business Process Management – 18th International Conference, BPM 2020, Seville, Spain, September 13-18, 2020, Proceedings. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 12168). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58666-9

Business Process Management Forum – BPM Forum 2020, Seville, Spain, September 13-18, 2020, Proceedings

Fahland, D., Ghidini, C., Becker, J., & Dumas, M. (Eds.) (2020). Business Process Management Forum – BPM Forum 2020, Seville, Spain, September 13-18, 2020, Proceedings. (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; Vol. 392). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58638-6

Information-preserving abstractions of event data in process mining

Leemans, S. J. J., & Fahland, D. (2020). Information-preserving abstractions of event data in process mining. Knowledge and Information Systems, 62(3), 1143–1197. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10115-019-01376-9 Abstract Process mining aims at obtaining information about processes by analysing their past executions in event logs, event streams, or databases. Discovering a process model from a finite amount of event data Read More …

Classifying and Detecting Task Executions and Routines in Processes Using Event Graphs

Klijn, E. L., Mannhardt, F., & Fahland, D. (2021). Classifying and Detecting Task Executions and Routines in Processes Using Event Graphs. In A. Polyvyanyy, M. T. Wynn, A. Van Looy, & M. Reichert (Eds.), Business Process Management Forum, BPM 2021, Proceedings (pp. 212-229). (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; Vol. 427 LNBIP). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5091610, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85440-9_13 Abstract Business Read More …

Using graph data structures for event logs

Esser, S., & Fahland, D. (2019). Using graph data structures for event logs. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3333831 Abstract Process mining as described in by Wil van der Aalst in is a combination of data mining and business process management to a new discipline. The general purpose of process mining is to derive process insights from event data captured Read More …

Visualizing Token Flows Using Interactive Performance Spectra

van der Aalst, W. M. P., Tacke Genannt Unterberg, D., Denisov, V., & Fahland, D. (2020). Visualizing Token Flows Using Interactive Performance Spectra. In R. Janicki, N. Sidorova, & T. Chatain (Eds.), Application and Theory of Petri Nets and Concurrency – 41st International Conference, PETRI NETS 2020, Proceedings (pp. 369-380). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science Read More …

Scalable alignment of process models and event logs: An approach based on automata and S-components

Reißner, D., Armas-Cervantes, A., Conforti, R., Dumas, M., Fahland, D., & La Rosa, M. (2020). Scalable alignment of process models and event logs: An approach based on automata and S-components. Information Systems, 94, [101561]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.is.2020.101561 Abstract Given a model of the expected behavior of a business process and given an event log recording its observed Read More …

Repairing Event Logs with Missing Events to Support Performance Analysis of Systems with Shared Resources

Denisov, V., Fahland, D., & van der Aalst, W. M. P. (2020). Repairing Event Logs with Missing Events to Support Performance Analysis of Systems with Shared Resources. In R. Janicki, N. Sidorova, & T. Chatain (Eds.), Application and Theory of Petri Nets and Concurrency – 41st International Conference, PETRI NETS 2020, Proceedings (pp. 239-259). (Lecture Notes Read More …

Multi-dimensional performance analysis and monitoring using integrated performance spectra

Denisov, V., Fahland, D., & Van Der Aalst, W. M. P. (2020). Multi-dimensional performance analysis and monitoring using integrated performance spectra. In C. Di Ciccio (Ed.), Proceedings of the ICPM Doctoral Consortium and Tool Demonstration Track 2020 co-located with the 2nd International Conference on Process Mining (ICPM 2020): Padua, Italy, October 4-9, 2020 (pp. 27-30). Read More …

Identifying and reducing errors in remaining time prediction due to inter-case dynamics

Klijn, E. L., & Fahland, D. (2020). Identifying and reducing errors in remaining time prediction due to inter-case dynamics. In B. van Dongen, M. Montali, & M. T. Wynn (Eds.), Proceedings – 2020 2nd International Conference on Process Mining, ICPM 2020 (pp. 25-32). [9229927] Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICPM49681.2020.00015 Abstract Remaining time prediction Read More …

Detecting system-level behavior leading to dynamic bottlenecks

Toosinezhad, Z., Fahland, D., Köroglu, Ö., & Van Der Aalst, W. M. P. (2020). Detecting system-level behavior leading to dynamic bottlenecks. In B. van Dongen, M. Montali, & M. T. Wynn (Eds.), Proceedings – 2020 2nd International Conference on Process Mining, ICPM 2020 (pp. 17-24). [9230102] Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICPM49681.2020.00014 Abstract Dynamic Read More …

Defining meaningful local process models

Brunings, M., Fahland, D., & van Dongen, B. (2020). Defining meaningful local process models. In W. van der Aalst, R. Bergenthum, & J. Carmona (Eds.), ATAED 2020 Algorithms & Theories for the Analysis of Event Data 2020: Proceedings of the International Workshop on Algorithms & Theories for the Analysis of Event Data 2020: Satellite event Read More …

Process mining for six sigma: a guideline and tool support

Graafmans, T. L. F., Türetken, O., Poppelaars, J. J. G. H., & Fahland, D. (Accepted/In press). Process mining for six sigma: a guideline and tool support. Business & Information Systems Engineering, 63(3), 277-300. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12599-020-00649-w. Abstract Process mining offers a set of techniques for gaining data-based insights into business processes from event logs. The literature acknowledges Read More …

Storing and querying multi-dimensional process event logs using graph databases

Esser, S., & Fahland, D. (2019). Storing and querying multi-dimensional process event logs using graph databases. In 15th International Workshop on Business Process Intelligence Abstract Process event data is usually stored either in a sequential process event log or in a relational database. While the sequential, single-dimensional nature of event logs aids querying for event Read More …

Predictive performance monitoring of material handling systems using the performance spectrum

Denisov, V., Fahland, D., & van der Aalst, W. M. P. (2019). Predictive performance monitoring of material handling systems using the performance spectrum. In Proceedings – 2019 International Conference on Process Mining, ICPM 2019 (pp. 137-144). [8786068] Piscataway: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. DOI: 10.1109/ICPM.2019.00029 Abstract Predictive performance analysis is crucial for supporting operational Read More …