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 …

Foundations of Data Analytics (2IAB1) 2023

Learning goals Working with data data exploration statistical techniques data visualisation data mining data organization and data retrieval Programming (customizable, reproducible) Communication skills (visualisations, a poster and a pitch in the assignments) Systematic way to approach problems (“scientific method”)

Interpreting workflow deviations for real-life case studies

Process models are used to describe and reason about the execution of a process (e.g., package delivery) where a process instance (package), also called as a case, moves through the system.  A case in a process is often subject to interaction with other cases and/or resources (e.g. deliverer), impacting the workflow. Event logs record which Read More …

Enhancing a visual analysis tool with conformance checking based on anti-pattern analysis at Philips Healthcare

Philips Healthcare produces an image-guided therapy system, called Azurion, that helps surgeons to execute complex procedures. In the past Master projects at Philips Healthcare, Master students have already developed a visual logfile analysis tool that has been making waves within our organization and conformance checking methods to address anti-patterns describing unwanted behavior. Now, we’re looking Read More …

Aligning Event Logs to Resource-Constrained ν-Petri Nets

Sommers, D., Sidorova, N., & van Dongen, B. (2022). Aligning Event Logs to Resource-Constrained ν-Petri Nets. In L. Bernardinello, & L. Petrucci (Eds.), Application and Theory of Petri Nets and Concurrency – 43rd International Conference, PETRI NETS 2022, Proceedings (pp. 325-345). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Read More …

Signal Phrase Extraction: Gateway to Information Retrieval Improvement in Law Texts

Sidorova, N., & van der Veen, M. (2021). Signal Phrase Extraction: Gateway to Information Retrieval Improvement in Law Texts. In E. Schweighofer (Ed.), Legal Knowledge and Information Systems – JURIX 2021: The 34th Annual Conference (pp. 127-130). (Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications; Vol. 346). IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.3233/FAIA210327 Abstract NLP-based techniques can support in improving Read More …

Data analytics for engineers (2IAB0) 2022

Learning goals Students gain insight in basic techniques for processing large amounts of data in an efficient, reliable, and consistent way. Students develop skills in understanding, interpreting, and documenting data and information in the context of realistic scenarios. Students get understanding of the data life cycle and develop skills for structuring their solutions of practical Read More …

Designing Micro-intelligences for Situated Affective Computing

Lövei, P., Nazarchuk, I., Aslam, S., Yu, B., Megens, C. J. P. G., & Sidorova, N. (2021). Designing Micro-intelligences for Situated Affective Computing. In R-H. Liang, A. Chiumento, P. Pawełczak, & M. Funk (Eds.), CHIIOT 2021: Workshops on Computer Human Interaction in IoT Applications Abstract In this position paper we show how micro-intelligences can be Read More …

Doing Legal Research Differently

Where Moonlit.ai (https://www.moonlit.ai) offers three very challenging NLP thesis topics. We are an Amsterdam bases startup incubated by Deloitte. While writing your thesis you will become part of the team and help out with various CS related problems. Depending on your skills and wishes, we can make it work. Legal argumentation miner Within court cases, Read More …

Identification of the Clinical Access Point such that KPI Tracking per Case is Supported

Healthcare is under a constant pressure to be more cost efficient. The reimbursements that healthcare providers receive for interventions are more and more tailored to the case and the way the case is carried out. A good example is that in North America, reimbursements are higher for cases that are done via radial access than Read More …

Detection and Prediction of Workflow Phases Using Identification and Prediction of Key Workflow Events

The need to understand users lies at the core of product design process, but traditional approaches of studying user behavior carry potential limitations. Therefore, making use of the data logged from the user interaction with the system, provides one with factual insights on user behavior to correctly identify and understand their needs and the actual Read More …

Mining process model descriptions of daily life through event abstraction

Tax, N., Sidorova, N., Haakma, R., & van der Aalst, W. M. P. (2018). Mining process model descriptions of daily life through event abstraction. In S. Kapoor, R. Bhatia, & Y. Bi (Eds.), Intelligent Systems and Applications: Extended and Selected Results from the SAI Intelligent Systems Conference (IntelliSys) 2016 (pp. 83-104). (Studies in Computational Intelligence; Read More …

Event abstraction for process mining using supervised learning techniques

Tax, N., Sidorova, N., Haakma, R., & van der Aalst, W. M. P. (2018). Event abstraction for process mining using supervised learning techniques. In Y. Bi, S. Kapoor, & R. Bhatia (Eds.), Proceedings of the SAI Intelligent Systems Conference (IntelliSys 2016), 21-22 September 2016, London, United Kingdom (pp. 251-269). (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems; Read More …

2IAB0 Data analytics for engineers

Learning goals Students gain insight in basic techniques for processing large amounts of data in an efficient, reliable, and consistent way. Students develop skills in understanding, interpreting, and documenting data and information in the context of realistic scenarios. Students get understanding of the data life cycle and develop skills for structuring their solutions of practical Read More …

Certif-AI

Certif-AI: Certification of production process quality through Artificial Intelligence Description Production processes can be made ‘smarter’ by exploiting the data streams that are generated by the machines that are used in production. In particular these data streams can be mined to build a model of the production process as it was really executed – as Read More …

Two new PhD students: Eva Klijn and Fatemeh Shafiee

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!

Guided interaction exploration and performance analysis in artifact-centric process models

van Eck, M. L., Sidorova, N., & van der Aalst, W. M. P. (2019). Guided interaction exploration and performance analysis in artifact-centric process models. Business and Information Systems Engineering, 61(6), 649-663. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12599-018-0546-0 Abstract Artifact-centric process models aim to describe complex processes as a collection of interacting artifacts. Recent development in process mining allow for the Read More …

Multi-instance mining: discovering synchronisation in artifact-centric processes

van Eck, M. L., Sidorova, N., & van der Aalst, W. M. P. (2019). Multi-instance mining: discovering synchronisation in artifact-centric processes. In F. Daniel, Q. Z. Sheng, & H. Motahari (Eds.), Business Process Management Workshops – BPM 2018 International Workshops, Revised Papers (pp. 18-30). (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; Vol. 342). Cham: Springer. DOI: Read More …

Data-driven usability test scenario creation

van Eck, M. L., Markslag, E., Sidorova, N., Brosens-Kessels, A., & van der Aalst, W. M. P. (2019). Data-driven usability test scenario creation. In M. K. Lárusdóttir, M. Winckler, K. Kuusinen, P. Palanque, & C. Bogdan (Eds.), Human-Centered Software Engineering – 7th IFIP WG 13.2 International Working Conference, HCSE 2018, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 88-108). Read More …

Mining local process models with constraints efficiently: applications to the analysis of smart home data

Tax, N., Sidorova, N., Haakma, R., & van der Aalst, W. M. P. (2018). Mining local process models with constraints efficiently: applications to the analysis of smart home data. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE) (pp. 56-63). [8595032] Piscataway: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. DOI: 10.1109/IE.2018.00016 Abstract Sequential pattern Read More …

Generating time-based label refinements to discover more precise process models

Tax, N., Alasgarov, E. E., Sidorova, N., Haakma, R., & van der Aalst, W. M. P. (2019). Generating time-based label refinements to discover more precise process models. Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments, 11(2), 165-182. DOI: 10.3233/AIS-190519 Abstract Process mining is a research field focused on the analysis of event data with the aim Read More …

Process Mining with Textual Data

In many application domains, a process execution is captured using natural language. Think of medical records, customer complaints, legal records… The same holds for process models: they can be captured as text for medical guidelines, user manuals, legal regulations are typical examples of such cases. Such data forms a new challenge for the process mining Read More …

Data-driven Product Design at Philips Healthcare (3 Master projects)

The study of user behaviour is an important part of the product design process. This process is particularly more difficult when dealing with products that require very complex user interaction. Therefore, obtaining as much product usage information as possible is needed, since it can reveal patterns in the user behaviour that indicate a misalignment between Read More …

Local process model discovery : bringing petri nets to the pattern mining world

Tax, Niek, Sidorova, Natalia, van der Aalst, Wil M.P. & Haakma, Reinder (2018). Local process model discovery : bringing petri nets to the pattern mining world. In V. Khohamenko & O.H. Roux (Eds.), Application and Theory of Petri Nets and Concurrency (pp. 374-384). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Read More …

Interest-driven discovery of local process models

Tax, Niek, Dalmas, Benjamin, Sidorova, Natalia, van der Aalst, Wil M.P. & Norre, Sylvie (2018). Interest-driven discovery of local process models. Information Systems, 77, 105-117. Abstract Local Process Models (LPM) describe structured fragments of process behavior occurring in the context of less structured business processes. Traditional LPM discovery aims to generate a collection of process Read More …

The imprecisions of precision measures in process mining

Tax, N., Lu, X., Sidorova, N., Fahland, D. & van der Aalst, W.M.P. (2018). The imprecisions of precision measures in process mining. Information Processing Letters, 135, 1-8. Abstract In process mining, precision measures are used to quantify how much a process model overapproximates the behavior seen in an event log. Although several measures have been Read More …

Discovering more precise process models from event logs by filtering out chaotic activities

Tax, N., Sidorova, N. & van der Aalst, W.M.P. (2019). Discovering more precise process models from event logs by filtering out chaotic activities. Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, 52(1), 107-139. DOI: 10.1007/s10844-018-0507-6 Abstract Process Discovery is concerned with the automatic generation of a process model that describes a business process from execution data of that Read More …

2IMI00 Seminar Process Analytics

In this seminar, a group of master students will get in touch with research in the area of Information Systems, where Process Mining and Process Analysis from Event Data are the central themes. We study recent publications in the area of process mining and practical applications on real-life examples, to provide a good insight into Read More …

2IMI15 Metamodelling and Interoperability

Independently developed applications based on different models and implemented on different platforms need to use each others services and share each others data. Interoperability is therefore one of the buzz-words of the last years in Computer Science. Web services-driven Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) have arisen as a solution to the interoperability problem. In this context, metamodeling Read More …

2IMI05 Capita selecta process analytics

People interested in the ‘process side’ of information systems can take the course ‘Capita selecta architecture of information systems’. This course will be organized in an ad-hoc manner taking into account the interests of the student. The focus will always be on a particular ‘hot topic’ in the information systems domain. The course can, in Read More …

TACTICS

TACTICS – Techniques for the Analysis of Client-Team InteraCtionS Description In various care and service settings (e.g. mental healthcare, youth care, social work), teams of professionals interact with clients to improve their well-being. The TACTICS project aims at the development of automated techniques to generate insights into the evolving statuses of such clients as well Read More …

Philips Flagship

Description The Data Science Centre Eindhoven (DSC/e) is TU/e’s response to the growing volume and importance of data and the need for data & process scientists (http://www.tue.nl/dsce/). The DSC/e has recently started a long-term strategic cooperation with Philips Research Eindhoven on three topics: data science, health and lighting. As a first concrete action, 70 PhD Read More …

Natalia Sidorova

Dr. Natalia Sidorova is assistant professor at the PA group. She actively works on topics related to process modeling and verification. The application domains include business processes and distributed systems. She has published more than 70 conference and journal papers. She is active in the Health and Wellbeing Action Line of EIT ICT Labs, taking 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 …