Event abstraction in process mining: literature review and taxonomy

van Zelst, S. J., Mannhardt, F., de Leoni, M., & Koschmider, A. (2020). Event abstraction in process mining: literature review and taxonomy. Granular Computing, XX(XX). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41066-020-00226-2 Abstract The execution of processes in companies generates traces of event data, stored in the underlying information system(s), capturing the actual execution of the process. Analyzing event data, i.e., Read More …

What if process predictions are not followed by good recommendations?

Dees, M., de Leoni, M., van der Aalst, W. M. P., & Reijers, H. A. (2019). What if process predictions are not followed by good recommendations? In J. vom Brocke , J. Mendling, & M. Rosemann (Eds.), 17th International Conference on Business Process Management 2019 Industry Forum: Proceedings of the Industry Forum at BPM 2019 Read More …

A framework to evaluate and compare decision-mining techniques

Jouck, T., de Leoni, M., & Depaire, B. (2019). A framework to evaluate and compare decision-mining techniques. In F. Daniel, Q. Z. Sheng, & H. Motahari (Eds.), Business Process Management Workshops – BPM 2018 International Workshops, Revised Papers (pp. 482-493). (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; Vol. 342). Cham: Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-11641-5_38 Abstract During the Read More …

Alarm-based prescriptive process monitoring

Teinemaa, Irene, Tax, Niek, de Leoni, Massimiliano, Dumas, Marlon & Maggi, Fabrizio Maria (2018). Alarm-based prescriptive process monitoring. In Ingo Weber, Jan vom Brocke, Marco Montali & Mathias Weske (Eds.), Business Process Management Forum – BPM Forum 2018, Proceedings (pp. 91-107). (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, No. 329). Springer. Abstract Predictive process monitoring is Read More …

Aligning partially-ordered process-execution traces and models using automated planning

de Leoni, Massimiliano, Lanciano, Giacomo & Marrella, Andrea (2018). Aligning partially-ordered process-execution traces and models using automated planning. 28th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, ICAPS 2018 (pp. 321-329). (Proceedings International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, ICAPS). Abstract Conformance checking is the problem of verifying if the actual executions of business processes, which Read More …

A holistic approach for soundness verification of decision-aware process models

de Leoni, Massimiliano, Felli, Paolo & Montali, Marco (2018). A holistic approach for soundness verification of decision-aware process models. In Xiaoyong Du, Guoliang Li, Zhanhuai Li, Juan C. Trujillo, Tok Wang Ling, Karen C. Davis & Mong Li Lee (Eds.), Conceptual Modeling – 37th International Conference, ER 2018, Proceedings (pp. 219-235). (Lecture Notes in Computer Read More …

Discovering high-level BPMN process models from event data

Kalenkova, Anna, Burattin, Andrea, de Leoni, Massimiliano, van der Aalst, Wil & Sperduti, Alessandro (2019). Discovering high-level BPMN process models from event data. Business Process Management Journal, 25(5), 995-1019. DOI: 10.1108/BPMJ-02-2018-0051 Abstract Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that process mining techniques can help to discover process models from event logs, using Read More …

When Portfolio Management meets Process Mining Challenges and Opportunities

FLIGHTMAP is Bicore’s flagship software solution for portfolio management. Since its launch in 2010, a growing group of international clients, such as DAF, Océ, and Fokker, have implemented FLIGHTMAP. With this tooling, they can perform roadmapping, budget and resource planning, scenario analysis, planning and tracking, and more. More information about FLIGHTMAP is available via www.flightmap.com. Read More …

Time and activity sequence prediction of business process instances

Polato, Mirko, Sperduti, Alessandro, Burattin, Andrea & de Leoni, Massimiliano (2018). Time and activity sequence prediction of business process instances. Computing, 100(9), 1005-1031 Abstract The ability to know in advance the trend of running process instances, with respect to different features, such as the expected completion time, would allow business managers to timely counteract to Read More …

Guided Process Discovery : A Pattern-based Approach

Mannhardt, F., de Leoni, M., Reijers, H.A., van der Aalst, W.M.P. & Toussaint, P. (2018). Guided Process Discovery : A Pattern-based Approach. Information Systems, 76, 1-18 Abstract Process mining techniques analyze processes based on events stored in event logs. Yet, low-level events recorded by information systems may not directly match high-level activities that make sense Read More …

Process variant comparison: using event logs to detect differences in behavior and business rules

Bolt, A., de Leoni, M. & van der Aalst, W.M.P. (2018). Process variant comparison: using event logs to detect differences in behavior and business rules. Information Systems, 74(1), 53-66. Abstract This paper addresses the problem of comparing different variants of the same process. We aim to detect relevant differences between processes based on what was Read More …

Massimiliano de Leoni

Dr. Massimiliano de Leoni is assistant professor at the PA group. His research focuses in the areas of Process-aware Information Systems and Business Process Management, predominantly on multi-perspective process mining, process-aware decision support systems as well as on visualization techniques for business process management and analysis. He has a genuine interest in the practical applications Read More …

Core

CORE – Consistently Optimised REsilient secure global supply-chains Description The CORE project aims to produce cost effective, fast and robust solutions for worldwide Global Supply Chain system. The project will implement an ecosystem where interoperability, security, resilience and real-time are optimized. The role of the AIS group in the project is to employ process mining 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 …

Publications in 2016

Article Scientific peer reviewed Van Der Aa, Han, Leopold, H. & Reijers, H.A. (2016). Dealing with behavioral ambiguity in textual process descriptions. Lecture notes in computer science, 9850, 271-288. Scopus. van der Aa, J.H., Reijers, H.A. & Vanderfeesten, I.T.P. (2016). Designing like a pro : the automated composition of workflow activities. Computers in Industry, 75, Read More …

Publications in 2015

Article Scientific peer reviewed Adriansyah, Arya, Munoz Gama, Jorge, Carmona, J., van Dongen, Boudewijn & van der Aalst, Wil (2015). Measuring precision of modeled behavior. Information Systems and e-Business Management, 13(1), 37-67. Claes, Jan, Vanderfeesten, Irene, Pinggera, J., Reijers, Hajo, Weber, B. & Poels, G. (2015). A visual analysis of the process of process modeling. Read More …