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 the discovered process models by avoiding such congestions. This paper discusses an ongoing work on incorporating recurrent concept drift in bottleneck prediction when applied to a real-world scenario. In the field of process mining, we develop a method of predicting whether and which bottlenecks will likely appear based on data known before a case starts. We next introduce GRAEC, a carefully-designed weighting mechanism to deal with concept drifts. The weighting decays over time and is extendable to adapt to seasonality in data. The methods are then applied to a simulation, and an invoicing process in the field of installation services in real-world settings. The results show an improvement to prediction accuracy compared to retraining a model on the most recent data.

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