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Recent courses

• Winter School (2IEIT0) 2024-2025 - Objectives The winter school will bring students together from different technical majors to work jointly on a business development process, where they learn to: Apply practical tools and templates to extend their entrepreneurial skills Analyse a business case and propose a domain plan and business plan Raise self-awareness by reflecting on their motivations, ambitions and Read More ...
• Foundations of Data Analytics (2IAB1) 2024-2025 - General learning goals Use basic statistical concepts and techniques and perform appropriate statistical tests Choose and apply suitable visualization techniques Analyze and model data using linear regression, clustering, decision tree mining and association rules learning Read and make simple database schemes and simple queries to a database. Clean data, choose and apply data transformations, data Read More ...
• EIT_Data Science entry point (2IMC93) 2024-2025 - Objectives In this meeting the student gets insight into the study program.
• EIT_DS exit point (2IMC98) 2024-2025 - Objectives In this meeting the student gets insight into the study program.
• DBL Data Challenge (JBG030) 2024-2025 - Objectives Non Bachelor Data Science wanting to register for this course should reach out to program management via mcs.academic.advisor.bds@tue.nl for formal approval After taking the course, students are able to independently apply and follow established data science research methods for a given problem and data set access, process, and reason about a large, complex dataset given Read More ...
• BDMA (2IMC99) 2024-2025 - Objectives In this meeting the student gets insight into the study program.
• Advanced Process Mining (2AMI20) 2024-2025 - Objectives After taking this course students should be able to: have a detailed understanding of the entire process mining spectrum and the methodology for process mining analysis can derive and pre-process event logs from raw data and have understand and can work with a specialized form of event data such as event knowledge graphs, or Read More ...

Recent external assignments

• Predicting the need of Nursing or Care Home and Home Care - (Verpleeg- en Verzorgingshuizen en Thuiszorg (VVT) in Dutch)  The St. Antonius hospital in Nieuwegein is an ambitious top clinical training hospital. Every year, more than 40,000 patients are admitted, of which 6,000 patients go home through Care Mediation with home care or to a nursing or care home. This outflow is very erratic with seasonal influences. At Read More ...
• Emergency and Operating rooms at HagaZiekenhuis - Two of the most important parts of a hospital are the Emergency room and the Operating room. HagaZiekenhuis deals with tens of thousands of patients every year. For each patient, everything is recorded in the Electronic Patient Record (Chipsoft Hix). Exploring the data recorded by both areas of the hospital opens the possibilities to understand Read More ...
• Happy nurses - The biggest problem that Dutch hospitals face today is the lack of nursing staff. Therefore, hospital beds are closed to maintain safety levels for the already admitted patients. However, patients on the waiting list or those already planned for elective care experience longer waiting times. And sometimes emergency care beds have to be closed causing Read More ...

Recent projects

• BPR4GDPR - Business Process Re-engineering for General Data Protection Regulation Description The goal of BPR4GDPR is to provide a holistic framework able to support end-to-end GDPR-compliant intra- and interorganisational ICT-enabled processes at various scales, while also being generic enough, fulfilling operational requirements covering diverse application domains. To this end, proposed solutions will have a strong semantic foundation Read More ...

Recent publications

• Multi-perspective Conformance Checking: Identifying and Understanding Patterns of Anomalous Behavior - Mozafari Mehr, A. S. (2024). Multi-perspective Conformance Checking: Identifying and Understanding Patterns of Anomalous Behavior. [Phd Thesis 1 (Research TU/e / Graduation TU/e), Mathematics and Computer Science]. Eindhoven University of Technology. Summary The problem of anomaly detection in business process executions has high level of complexity. On one hand, detecting deviating behavior requires considering various Read More ...
• Using Machine Learning Techniques to Support the Emergency Department - van Delft, R. A. J. J., & de Carvalho, R. M. (2022). Using Machine Learning Techniques to Support the Emergency Department. Computing and Informatics, 41(1), 154-171. https://doi.org/10.31577/CAI_2022_1_154 Abstract This research lays down foundations for a stronger presence of machine learning in the emergency department. Using machine learning to make predictions on a patient’s situation can Read More ...
• From predictions to recommendations: Tackling bottlenecks and overstaying in the Emergency Room through a sequence of Random Forests - Verdaasdonk, M. J. A., & de Carvalho, R. M. (2022). From predictions to recommendations: Tackling bottlenecks and overstaying in the Emergency Room through a sequence of Random Forests. Healthcare Analytics, 2, Article 100040. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.health.2022.100040 Abstract One of the goals to improve the quality of care in hospitals is to set a maximum of four hours Read More ...
• Domain engineering for customer experience management - Benzarti, I., Mili, H., Medeiros de Carvalho, R., & Leshob, A. (2022). Domain engineering for customer experience management. Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering, 18(1), 171-191. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11334-021-00426-2 Abstract Customer experience management (CXM) denotes a set of practices, processes, and tools, that aim at personalizing a customer’s interactions with a company around the customer’s needs and Read More ...
• An insight to nurse workload: predicting activities in the next shift and analyzing bedside alarms influence - de Carvalho, R. M., Nguyen, H., Heetveld, M., & Luime, J. (2022). An insight to nurse workload: predicting activities in the next shift and analyzing bedside alarms influence. In T. X. Bui (Ed.), Proceedings of the 55th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2022 (pp. 4108-4117). IEEE Computer Society. Abstract The effects of Read More ...
• Predicting Patient Care Acuity: An LSTM Approach for Days-to-day Prediction - Bekelaar, J. W. R., Luime, J. J., & de Carvalho, R. M. (2023). Predicting Patient Care Acuity: An LSTM Approach for Days-to-day Prediction. In M. Montali, A. Senderovich, & M. Weidlich (Eds.), Process Mining Workshops – ICPM 2022 International Workshops, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 378-390). (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; Vol. 468 LNBIP). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27815-0_28 Read More ...
• Identifying the Context of Data Usage to Diagnose Privacy Issues through Process Mining - Mehr, A. S. M., de Carvalho, R. M., & van Dongen, B. (2023). Identifying the Context of Data Usage to Diagnose Privacy Issues through Process Mining. Transactions on Data Privacy, 16(2), 123-151. http://www.tdp.cat/issues21/tdp.a456a22.pdf Abstract In recent years, data privacy issues are increasingly concerned by organisations and gov-ernments. Organisations often define a set of rules as Read More ...
• Detecting Complex Anomalous Behaviors in Business Processes: A Multi-perspective Conformance Checking Approach - Mozafari Mehr, A. S., M. de Carvalho, R., & van Dongen, B. (2023). Detecting Complex Anomalous Behaviors in Business Processes: A Multi-perspective Conformance Checking Approach. In M. Montali, A. Senderovich, & M. Weidlich (Eds.), Process Mining Workshops – ICPM 2022 International Workshops, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 44-56). (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; Vol. 468 LNBIP). Read More ...
• An Association Rule Mining-Based Framework for the Discovery of Anomalous Behavioral Patterns - Mozafari Mehr, A. S., M. de Carvalho, R., & van Dongen, B. (2022). An Association Rule Mining-Based Framework for the Discovery of Anomalous Behavioral Patterns. In W. Chen, L. Yao, T. Cai, S. Pan, T. Shen, & X. Li (Eds.), Advanced Data Mining and Applications – 18th International Conference, ADMA 2022, Proceedings (pp. 397-412). (Lecture Notes in Computer Read More ...
• MLA: A Tool for Multi-Perspective Conformance Checking of Business Processes - Mehr, A. S. M., de Carvalho, R. M., & van Dongen, B. (2021). MLA: A Tool for Multi-Perspective Conformance Checking of Business Processes. In ICPM 2021 Doctoral Consortium and Demo Track 2021 (pp. 35-36). (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; Vol. 3098). CEUR-WS.org. https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3098/demo_200.pdf Abstract Existing conformance checking techniques focus more on the control-flow perspective rather than other Read More ...