Tag: Dirk Fahland

  • Dirk Fahland - Dirk is Associate Professor (UHD) in the PA group. He completed his PhD with summa cum laude at Humboldt-Univeristät zu Berlin and Eindhoven University of Technology in 2010. His research interests include distributed processes and systems built from distributed components for which he investigates modeling systems (using process modeling languages, Petri nets, or scenario-based techniques), Read More ...

Identify Typical Process Optimization Use Cases for the Analysis of Interacting Instances of Different Processes Together (Process/data analyst intern)

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Hoekenrode 3, Amsterdam, Netherlands Intern Region: EMEA – Europe, Middle East and Africa Employee Type: Intern (fixed time) Company Description ServiceNow is making the world of work, work better for people. Our cloud‑based platform and solutions deliver digital workflows that create great experiences and unlock productivity for employees and the enterprise. We’re growing fast, innovating Read More …

Develop a Query Language for Event Data of Many Interacting Processes

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Hoekenrode 3, Amsterdam, Netherlands Region: EMEA – Europe, Middle East and Africa Company Description ServiceNow is making the world of work, work better for people. Our cloud‑based platform and solutions deliver digital workflows that create great experiences and unlock productivity for employees and the enterprise. We’re growing fast, innovating faster, and making an impact on Read More …

Process Mining for “Thinking Assistants” in Logistics

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Summary In the context of the “Process Mining in Logistics” research project between Vanderlande Industries, we are offering multiple Master projects aimed at laying the foundations for a “Thinking Assistant” for large-scale material handling systems.  Such a “Thinking Assistant” shall support engineers and operators in faster identifying problems and root-causes, predicting possible problems, and proposing Read More …

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

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Klijn, E. L., Mannhardt, F., & Fahland, D. (2021). Classifying and Detecting Task Executions and Routines in Processes Using Event Graphs. In BPM (Forum) (pp. 212-229) https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5091610, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85440-9_13 Abstract Business process management organizes work into several interrelated “units of work”, fundamentally conceptualized as a task. The classical concept of a task as a single step Read More …

Using graph data structures for event logs

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 …

New master: Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (in Dutch)

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Data als brandstof voor kunstmatige intelligentie; TU/e start nieuwe masteropleiding EINDHOVEN – Zonder brandstof komt een auto niet vooruit. Hetzelfde principe gaat op voor kunstmatige intelligentie: zonder voldoende en goede data is daar niets intelligents aan. Een nieuwe master van de TU/e combineert daarom die twee disciplines. Bron: ED

Develop a Behavioral Event Data Query Language

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Query languages are essential for exploring, working with data and directly answering questions from data. SQL is the prime example for answering questions on relational data. Behavioral data is recorded in the form of events with timestamps. Various techniques such as Process Mining use the data in the form of event logs to aggregate and Read More …

Best PhD. Dissertation award at ICPM 2020 for Xixi Lu

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Xixi Lu, a former PhD student of our group, has won the Best PhD. Dissertation award with her thesis “Using behavioral context in process mining: exploration, preprocessing and analysis of event data“. Her promotor was Wil van der Aalst, and Dirk Fahland was one of her copromotors.

Process Mining and Process Prediction in Logistics (Vanderlande)

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Summary In the context of the “Process Mining in Logistics” research project between Vanderlande Industries, we are offering multiple Master projects on process mining on event data of large-scale material handling systems. The fundamental challenges addressed are size (logistics processes are a factor 10-100 larger than business processes), reliable performance analysis and process prediction. We Read More …

2AMI20 Advanced Process Mining

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Understanding and predicting behavior of people and machines in a shared setting (task, project, factory, process, organization) is central to Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. Actions of people and machines can be recorded as discrete events in event sequences (logs), event databases (tables, graphs), and real-time event streams. Learning behavioral models of discrete event data Read More …

Process mining for six sigma: a guideline and tool support

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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. Abstract Process mining offers a set of techniques for gaining data-based insights into business processes from event logs. The literature acknowledges the potential benefits Read More …

Two new PhD students: Eva Klijn and Fatemeh Shafiee

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On February 1st, Eva Klijn and Fatemeh Shafiee started working as PhD students in the PA group. Eva started as PhD-TA, and is supervised by Dirk Fahland. Fatemeh started as a PhD student on the TACTICS project, and is supervised by Natalia Sidorova. A big welcome to the both of them!

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

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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

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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 …

Performance mining for batch processing using the performance spectrum

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Klijn, E. L., & Fahland, D. (2019). Performance mining for batch processing using the performance spectrum. In 15th International Workshop on Business Process Intelligence Abstract Performance analysis from process event logs is a central element of business process management and improvement. Established performance analysis techniques aggregate time-stamped event data to identify bottlenecks or to visualize Read More …

Describing behavior of processes with many-to-many interactions

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Fahland, D. (2019). Describing behavior of processes with many-to-many interactions. In S. Haar, & S. Donatelli (Eds.), Application and Theory of Petri Nets and Concurrency – 40th International Conference, PETRI NETS 2019, Proceedings (pp. 3-24). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 11522 LNCS). Read More …

Information-preserving abstractions of event data in process mining

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Leemans, S. J. J., & Fahland, D. (2019). Information-preserving abstractions of event data in process mining. Knowledge and Information Systems. DOI: 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 thereby Read More …

Process Discovery using Generative Adversarial Neural Networks

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Process Discovery is an unsupervised learning problem with the task of discovering a graph-based model from sequences (or graphs) of event data that describes the data best. Generative Adversarial Neural Networks (GANNs) are a type of neural networks used to learn structures in an unsupervised fashion. The objective of this project is to explore the Read More …

Process Mining on Event Graph Databases (multiple projects)

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Process mining assumes event data to be stored in an event log, which is technically either a relational table (attributes as columns) or a stream of events (attribute value pairs). Recently, we developed a new technique to store event data in a Graph database such as Neo4j. This allows to do process mining over various Read More …

Mining processes, social networks, and queues (multiple projects)

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A recent visual analytics technique called the “Performance Spectrum” https://github.com/processmining-in-logistics/psm allows us to gain more fine-grained insights into performance behavior and changes over time. A TU/e Master student showed that it is possible to mine synchronization of cases from the performance spectrum data showing that the behavior of a case depends on the mechanisms and Read More …

Efficient unsupervised event context detection

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for event log clustering, outlier detection, and pre-processing. We recently developed a technique to detect the context of events from an event log in an efficient way through sub-graph matching. This allows to identify events and parts of event logs which are similar or different to each other, allowing to cluster traces, detect outliers, and Read More …

Smart event log pre-processing

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The quality of process mining results highly depends on the quality of the input data where noise, infrequent behaviors, log incompleteness or many different variants undercut the assumptions of process discovery algorithms, and lead to low-quality results. ProM provides numerous event log pre-processing and filtering options, but they require expert knowledge to understand when which Read More …

The performance spectrum miner : visual analytics for fine-grained performance analysis of processes

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Denisov, Vadim, Belkina, Elena, Fahland, Dirk & van der Aalst, Wil M.P. (2018). The performance spectrum miner : visual analytics for fine-grained performance analysis of processes. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2196, 96-100. Abstract We present the Performance Spectrum Miner, a ProM plugin, which implements a new technique for fine-grained performance analysis of processes. The technique uses Read More …

Who is behind the model? classifying modelers based on pragmatic model features

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Burattin, Andrea, Soffer, Pnina, Fahland, Dirk, Mendling, Jan, Reijers, Hajo A., Vanderfeesten, Irene, Weidlich, Matthias & Weber, Barbara (2018). Who is behind the model? classifying modelers based on pragmatic model features. In Ingo Weber, Jan vom Brocke, Marco Montali & Mathias Weske (Eds.), Business Process Management – 16th International Conference, BPM 2018, Proceedings (pp. 322-338). Read More …

Advanced Process Mining techniques in Practice (several Master projects with ProcessGold)

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ProcessGold is a software supplier bringing together Process Mining and Business Intelligence, driven by highly skilled ICT entrepreneurs and backed by a wealth of experience. ProcessGold recently released a new Process Mining platform, the ProcessGold Enterprise Platform, that combines data extraction, process mining techniques, and visual analytics in order to produce dynamic visual reports which Read More …

Process mining in Logistics – 3D Visualization and Scalable Process Mining on Big Event Data (2 Topics)

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Vanderlande is the global market leader for value-added logistic process automation at airports and in the parcel market. The company is also a leading supplier of process automation solutions for warehouses. Some figures: Vanderlande’s baggage handling systems move 3.7 billion pieces of luggage around the world per year. Our systems are active in 600 airports Read More …