Can we Learn from Outliers? Unsupervised Optimization of Intelligent Vehicle Traffic Management Systems

Mertens, T., & Hassani, M. (2023). Can we Learn from Outliers? Unsupervised Optimization of Intelligent Vehicle Traffic Management Systems. In M.-R. Amini, S. Canu, A. Fischer, T. Guns, P. Kralj Novak, & G. Tsoumakas (Eds.), Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases: European Conference, ECML PKDD 2022, Grenoble, France, September 19–23, 2022, Proceedings, Part VI Read More …

Conformance checking of process event streams with constraints on data retention

Zaman, R., Hassani, M., & van Dongen, B. F. (2023). Conformance checking of process event streams with constraints on data retention. Information Systems, 117, Article 102228. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.is.2023.102228 Abstract Conformance checking (CC) techniques in process mining determine the conformity of cases, by means of their event sequences, with respect to a business process model. Online conformance Read More …

Predicting Activities of Interest in the Remainder of Customer Journeys Under Online Settings

Wolters, L., & Hassani, M. (2023). Predicting Activities of Interest in the Remainder of Customer Journeys Under Online Settings. In M. Montali, A. Senderovich, & M. Weidlich (Eds.), Process Mining Workshops – ICPM 2022 International Workshops, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 145-157). (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; Vol. 468 LNBIP). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27815-0_11 Abstract Customer journey analysis Read More …

PrefixCDD: Effective Online Concept Drift Detection over Event Streams using Prefix Trees.

Huete, J., Qahtan, A. A., & Hassani, M. (2023). PrefixCDD: Effective Online Concept Drift Detection over Event Streams using Prefix Trees. In H. Shahriar, Y. Teranishi, A. Cuzzocrea, M. Sharmin, D. Towey, AKM. J. A. Majumder, H. Kashiwazaki, J.-J. Yang, M. Takemoto, N. Sakib, R. Banno, & S. I. Ahamed (Eds.), COMPSAC (pp. 328-333) https://doi.org/10.1109/COMPSAC57700.2023.00051 Read More …

Evaluation of Probability Distribution Distance Metrics in Traffic Flow Outlier Detection

Andersen, E., Chiarandini, M., Hassani, M., Janicke, S., Tampakis, P., & Zimek, A. (2022). Evaluation of Probability Distribution Distance Metrics in Traffic Flow Outlier Detection. In Proceedings – 2022 23rd IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management, MDM 2022 (pp. 64-69). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. https://doi.org/10.1109/MDM55031.2022.00030 Abstract Recent approaches have proven the effectiveness Read More …

Online Prediction of Aggregated Retailer Consumer Behaviour

Spenrath, Y., Hassani, M., & van Dongen, B. F. (2022). Online Prediction of Aggregated Retailer Consumer Behaviour. In J. Munoz-Gama, & X. Lu (Eds.), Process Mining Workshops – ICPM 2021 International Workshops, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 211-223). (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; Vol. 433 LNBIP). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98581-3_16 Abstract Predicting the behaviour of consumers provides valuable Read More …

BitBooster: Effective Approximation of Distance Metrics via Binary Operations

Spenrath, Y., Hassani, M., & Van Dongen, B. F. (2022). BitBooster: Effective Approximation of Distance Metrics via Binary Operations. In H. Va Leong, S. S. Sarvestani, Y. Teranishi, A. Cuzzocrea, H. Kashiwazaki, D. Towey, J-J. Yang, & H. Shahriar (Eds.), Proceedings – 2022 IEEE 46th Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference, COMPSAC 2022 (pp. 201-210). Read More …

Efficient Memory Utilization in Conformance Checking of Process Event Streams

Zaman, R., Hassani, M., & van Dongen, B. F. (2022). Efficient Memory Utilization in Conformance Checking of Process Event Streams. 437-440. https://doi.org/10.1145/3477314.3507217 Abstract Conformance checking (CC) techniques of the process mining field gauge the conformance of the events constituting a case with respect to a business process model. Online conformance checking (OCC) techniques assess such Read More …

A Framework for Efficient Memory Utilization in Online Conformance Checking

Zaman, R., Hassani, M., & van Dongen, B. F. (2021). A Framework for Efficient Memory Utilization in Online Conformance Checking. arXiv.org. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2112.13640.pdf Abstract Conformance checking (CC) techniques of the process mining field gauge the conformance of the sequence of events in a case with respect to a business process model, which simply put is an Read More …

Prefix Imputation of Orphan Events in Event Stream Processing

Zaman, R., Hassani, M., & van Dongen, B. F. (2021). Prefix Imputation of Orphan Events in Event Stream Processing. Frontiers in Big Data, 4, [705243]. https://doi.org/10.3389/fdata.2021.705243 Abstract In the context of process mining, event logs consist of process instances called cases. Conformance checking is a process mining task that inspects whether a log file is Read More …

What Averages Do Not Tell – Predicting Real Life Processes with Sequential Deep Learning

Ketykó, I., Mannhardt, F., Hassani, M., & van Dongen, B. F. (2021). What Averages Do Not Tell – Predicting Real Life Processes with Sequential Deep Learning. CoRR, abs/2110.10225. https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.10225 Abstract Deep Learning is proven to be an effective tool for modeling sequential data as shown by the success in Natural Language, Computer Vision and Signal Read More …

Predicting Next Touch Point In A Customer Journey – A Use Case In Telecommunication

Hassani, M., & Habets, S. (2021). Predicting Next Touch Point In A Customer Journey – A Use Case In Telecommunication. In 35th ECMS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MODELLING AND SIMULATION (1 ed., Vol. 35, pp. 48-54). (Proceedings – European Council for Modelling and Simulation, ECMS). https://doi.org/10.7148/2021-0048 Abstract Customer journey analysis is rapidly increasing in popularity, as Read More …

Data Minimisation as Privacy and Trust Instrument in Business Processes

Zaman, R., Hassani, M., & van Dongen, B. F. (Accepted/In press). Data Minimisation as Privacy and Trust Instrument in Business Processes. In Business Process Management Workshops (BPM 2020) Springer. Abstract Data is vital for almost all sorts of business processes and workflows. However, the possession of personal data of other beings bear consequences. Data is Read More …

Facilitating GDPR compliance: the H2020 BPR4GDPR approach

Lioudakis, G. V., Koukovini, M. N., Papagiannakopoulou, E. I., Dellas, N., Kalaboukas, K., de Carvalho, R. M., Hassani, M., Bracciale, L., Bianchi, G., Juan-Verdejo, A., Alexakis, S., Gaudino, F., Cascone, D., & Barracano, P. (2020). Facilitating GDPR compliance: the H2020 BPR4GDPR approach. In I. O. Pappas, I. O. Pappas, P. Mikalef, L. Jaccheri, J. Krogstie, Read More …

On Enabling GDPR Compliance in Business Processes Through Data-Driven Solutions

Zaman, R., & Hassani, M. (2020). On Enabling GDPR Compliance in Business Processes Through Data-Driven Solutions. SN Computer Science, 1(4), 1-15. [210]. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42979-020-00215-x Abstract The collection and long-term retention of excessive data enables organisations to process data for insights in non-primary processes. The discovery of insights is promoted to be useful both for organisations and Read More …

Predicting Business Process Bottlenecks In Online Events Streams Under Concept Drifts

Spenrath, Y., & Hassani, M. (2020). Predicting Business Process Bottlenecks In Online Events Streams Under Concept Drifts. In M. Steglich, C. Muller, G. Neumann, & M. Walther (Eds.), Proceedings of European Council for Modelling and Simulation (ECMS) 2020 (pp. 190-196). (Proceedings European Council for Modelling and Simulation; Vol. 34, No. 1). European Council for Modeling Read More …

Why did my Consumer Shop? Learning an Efficient Distance Metric for Retailer Transaction Data

Spenrath, Y., Hassani, M., van Dongen, B. F., & Tariq, H. Why did my Consumer Shop? Learning an Efficient Distance Metric for Retailer Transaction Data. In Y. Dong, D. Mladenic, & C. Saunders (Eds.), Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases. Applied Data Science and Demo Track – European Conference, ECML PKDD 2020, Proceedings (pp. Read More …

An innovative online process mining framework for supporting incremental GDPR compliance of business processes

Zaman, R., Cuzzocrea, A., & Hassani, M. (2019). An innovative online process mining framework for supporting incremental GDPR compliance of business processes. In C. Baru, J. Huan, L. Khan, X. T. Hu, R. Ak, Y. Tian, R. Barga, C. Zaniolo, K. Lee, & Y. F. Ye (Eds.), 2019 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Big Read More …

Overview of efficient clustering methods for high-dimensional big data streams

Hassani, M. (2019). Overview of efficient clustering methods for high-dimensional big data streams. In O. Nasraoui, & C-E. Ben N’Cir (Eds.), Clustering Methods for Big Data Analytics (pp. 25-42). (Unsupervised and Semi-Supervised Learning). Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97864-2_2 Abstract The majority of clustering approaches focused on static data. However, a big variety of recent applications and research Read More …

Process mining meets GDPR compliance: the right to be forgotten as a use case

Zaman, R., & Hassani, M. (2019). Process mining meets GDPR compliance: the right to be forgotten as a use case. In B. van Dongen, & J. Claes (Eds.), ICPM Doctoral Consortium 2019: Proceedings of the ICPM 2019 Doctoral Consortium co-located with 1st International Conference on Process Mining (ICPM 2019) (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; Vol. 2432). CEUR-WS.org. Read More …

Optimizing customer journey using process mining and sequence-aware recommendation

Terragni, A., & Hassani, M. (2019). Optimizing customer journey using process mining and sequence-aware recommendation. In SAC ’19 Proceedings of the 34th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (pp. 57-65). New York: Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. DOI: 10.1145/3297280.3297288 Abstract Customer journey analysis aims at understanding customer behavior both in the traditional offline setting and through Read More …

Online comparison of streaming process discovery algorithms

Baskar, K., & Hassani, M. (2019). Online comparison of streaming process discovery algorithms. In B. Depaire, J. De Smedt , & M. Dumas (Eds.), Proceedings of the Dissertation Award, Doctoral Consortium, and Demonstration Track at BPM 2019 co-located with 17th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2019) (pp. 164-168). (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; Vol. 2420). Read More …

Ensemble-based prediction of business processes bottlenecks with recurrent concept drifts

Spenrath, Y., & Hassani, M. (2019). Ensemble-based prediction of business processes bottlenecks with recurrent concept drifts. In P. Papotti (Ed.), Proceedings of the Workshops of the EDBT/ICDT 2019 Joint Conference: Lisbon, Portugal, March 26, 2019 (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; Vol. 2322). CEUR-WS.org. Abstract Bottleneck prediction is an important sub-task of process mining that aims at optimizing Read More …

Concept drift detection of event streams using an adaptive window

Hassani, M. (2019). Concept drift detection of event streams using an adaptive window. In 33rd International ECMS Conference on Modelling and Simulation, ECMS 2019 (pp. 230-239). [DSM 73] (Proceedings – European Council for Modelling and Simulation, ECMS; Vol. 33). Abstract Process mining is an emerging data mining task of gathering valuable knowledge out of the Read More …

An effective and efficient approach for supporting the generation of synthetic memory reference traces via hierarchical hidden/non-hidden Markov Models

Cuzzocrea, A., Mumolo, E., & Hassani, M. (2019). An effective and efficient approach for supporting the generation of synthetic memory reference traces via hierarchical hidden/non-hidden Markov Models. In Proceedings – 2018 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, SMC 2018 (pp. 2953-2959). [8616498] Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. DOI: 10.1109/SMC.2018.00502 Abstract This paper Read More …

Effective steering of customer journey via order-aware recommendation

Goossens, J. A. J., Demewez, T., & Hassani, M. (2018). Effective steering of customer journey via order-aware recommendation. In 2018 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshops (ICDMW) (pp. 828-837). Piscataway: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. DOI: 10.1109/ICDMW.2018.00123 Abstract The analysis of customer journeys is a subject undergoing an intense study recently . The Read More …

On the application of sequential pattern mining primitives to process discovery: overview, outlook and opportunity identification

Hassani, M., van Zelst, S. J., & van der Aalst, W. M. P. (2019). On the application of sequential pattern mining primitives to process discovery: overview, outlook and opportunity identification. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 9(6), [e1315]. DOI: 10.1002/widm.1315 Abstract Sequential pattern mining (SPM) is a well-studied theme in data mining, in Read More …

Online conformance checking: relating event streams to process models using prefix-alignments

van Zelst, S. J., Bolt Irondio, A. J., Hassani, M., van Dongen, B. F., & van der Aalst, W. M. P. (2019). Online conformance checking: relating event streams to process models using prefix-alignments. International Journal of Data Science and Analytics, 8(3), 269-284. DOI: 10.1007/s41060-017-0078-6 Abstract Companies often specify the intended behaviour of their business processes Read More …

BFSPMiner: an effective and efficient batch-free algorithm for mining sequential patterns over data streams

Hassani, M., Töws, D., Cuzzocrea, A., & Seidl, T. (2019). BFSPMiner: an effective and efficient batch-free algorithm for mining sequential patterns over data streams. International Journal of Data Science and Analytics, 8(3), 223-239. DOI: 10.1007/s41060-017-0084-8 Abstract Supporting sequential pattern mining from data streams is nowadays a relevant problem in the area of data stream mining Read More …

Analyzing customer journey with process mining : from discovery to recommendations

Terragni, Alessandro & Hassani, Marwan (2018). Analyzing customer journey with process mining : from discovery to recommendations. In Muhammad Younas & Jules Pagna Disso (Eds.), Proceedings – 2018 IEEE 6th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud, FiCloud 2018 (pp. 224-229). Piscataway: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Abstract Customer journey analysis Read More …

Towards effective generation of synthetic memory references via markovian models

Cuzzocrea, Alfredo, Mumolo, Enzo, Hassani, Marwan & Grasso, Giorgio Mario (2018). Towards effective generation of synthetic memory references via markovian models. In Ling Liu, Claudio Demartini, Ji-Jiang Yang, Thomas Conte, Kamrul Hasan, Edmundo Tovar, Zhiyong Zhang, Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, Stelvio Cimato, Toyokazu Akiyama, Sorel Reisman, William Claycomb, Motonori Nakamura, Hiroki Takakura & Chung-Horng Lung (Eds.), Read More …

A Markov-Model-based framework for supporting real-time generation of synthetic memory references effectively and efficiently

Cuzzocrea, Alfredo, Mumolo, Enzo, Hassani, Marwan & Grasso, Giorgio Mario (2018). A Markov-Model-based framework for supporting real-time generation of synthetic memory references effectively and efficiently. Proceedings – DMSVIVA 2018 (pp. 83-90). Pittsburgh: Knowledge Systems Institute Graduate School. Abstract Driven by several real-life case studies and in-lab developments, synthetic memory reference generation has a long tradition Read More …

Publications in 2017

Article Scientific peer reviewed Arriagada-Benítez, M., Sepúlveda, M., Munoz-Gama, J. & Buijs, J.C.A.M. (2017). Strategies to automatically derive a process model from a configurable process model based on event data. Applied Sciences, 7(10):1023. Bolt, A., de Leoni, M. & van der Aalst, W.M.P. (2017). Process variant comparison: using event logs to detect differences in behavior Read More …