1. A Rule-Based Approach for Process Discovery: Dealing with Noise and Imbalance in Process Logs.
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Mǎruşter, Laura, Weijters, A. J. M. M., Van Der Aalst, Wil M. P., and Van Den Bosch, Antal
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INFORMATION resources ,DATA mining ,MACHINE learning ,MACHINE theory ,PETRI nets ,GRAPH theory ,CASE studies ,ALGORITHMS - Abstract
Effective information systems require the existence of explicit process models. A completely specified process design needs to be developed in order to enact a given business process. This development is time consuming and often subjective and incomplete. We propose a method that constructs the process model from process log data, by determining the relations between process tasks. To predict these relations, we employ machine learning technique to induce rule sets. These rule sets are induced from simulated process log data generated by varying process characteristics such as noise and log size. Tests reveal that the induced rule sets have a high predictive accuracy on new data. The effects of noise and imbalance of execution priorities during the discovery of the relations between process tasks are also discussed. Knowing the causal, exclusive, and parallel relations, a process model expressed in the Petri net formalism can be built. We illustrate our approach with real world data in a case study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2006
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