Process Intelligence in Action (2AMI30) 2026-2027

Objectives After taking the course, students are able to:  Content Students learn how to plan, conduct and critically evaluate process intelligence projects in practice. They learn to follow research methodology to choose and combine appropriate techniques to generate and evaluate relevant insights from process logs and models. Students  work on a challenge with a real-word Read More …

Uncharted Workflows: Process Mining Perspectives in Health

Sidorova, N., & Medeiros de Carvalho, R. (2026). Uncharted Workflows: Process Mining Perspectives in Health. In J. Mendling, S. Leemans, B. F. van Dongen, & H. Reijers (Eds.), Mining a Scientist’s Process: Essays Dedicated to Wil van der Aalst on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday (pp. 648-661). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS); Vol. 16480). Read More …

Explainable conformance checking: Understanding patterns of anomalous behavior

Mozafari Mehr, A. S., M. de Carvalho, R., & van Dongen, B. (2023). Explainable conformance checking: Understanding patterns of anomalous behavior. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 126(Part B.), Article 106827. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engappai.2023.106827 Abstract Anomaly detection in the execution of business processes in the organizations has a high level of complexity due to the consideration of various Read More …

Conformance Checking: Timed, Stochastic, and Systemic Trace Insights

Conformance checking helps us understand how well the process behavior recorded in event logs matches the process behavior prescribed by a process model. The goal of this project is to advance conformance checking methods by integrating timed and stochastic aspects of process behavior and optimizing alignments across entire event logs. We will:

Improving Conformance Checking Algorithms with Ground Truth-Driven Insights

Conformance checking helps us understand how well the process behavior recorded in event logs matches the process behavior prescribed by a process model. The goal of this project is to improve conformance checking methods by using a more reliable way of evaluating and validating them. We will:

AIDE: AI Driving Education

Background and General Information AIDE (AI Driving Education) responds to the growing presence of large language model (LLM) tools like ChatGPT, Cursor, and Copilot in academic environments. These tools are increasingly used by students, influencing both how they learn and how their work is assessed. The proposal addresses this shift by embedding responsible AI tool Read More …

A Novel Way to Evaluate Medical Discharge Predictions: A Research Paper

van der Haas, Y., Medeiros de Carvalho, R., van Dijk, T., van Dongen, B. F., & Plas, R. (2025). A Novel Way to Evaluate Medical Discharge Predictions: A Research Paper. Paper presented at2st International Workshop on Process Mining Applications for Healthcare, PM4H25, Pavia, Italië.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Advanced Process Mining (2AMI20) 2023

Many real-life phenomena studied with Data Science methods unfold over time. They often involve many people, objects, agents, machines, entities, etc. that interact with each other while distributed in time and space. Such dynamics are called processes and are present everywhere: in software systems medical treatments, logistics systems, manufacturing, and even entire organizations. Process mining 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 …