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Computer science tecniques, methodologies, and approaches, are directly applied to improve other enginnering disciplines. Construction is no exception, where software and data analysis are used to improve the processes of control and monitoring of construction projects. Most of the analysis are based on a key-value perspective analysis of the data. However, an emerging Process Mining discipline has proven to be able to capture a different process perspective. This interdisciplinary work is a step on this direction, proposing the Constraint Bag Process Model (CBPM), a novel use of Process Mining for answering process-oriented questions on construction projects.

The structure and the way in which organizations manage their projects have evolved. Agile software development has emerged as an alternative to manage projects management processes more efficiently. Process mining allows the analysis of project historical information and proposing improvements for agile processes. A systematic mapping study (SMS) was conducted to classify the proposed approaches in agile development methodologies that uses process mining. A total of 502 studies were identified, and finally 6 studies were selected and analyzed according to distinct aspects. Conference proceedings is the most common venue. There is a concentration of approaches published that comes from Asia and Europe. Disco tool is the most frequently used tool. Meanwhile, the process discovery being the most relevant process mining type used by researchers in this research area. There are two evaluation methods reported as being used: case study and running example, where Scrum is the most frequently methodology used. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first research that has been conducted to generate a SMS in this research area.

Nowadays organizations generate large amount of data. Only a few make a good use to optimize the performance of the business. Process mining appears as a branch of the data science that tries to understand the actual operational processes in the organizations through different algorithms, allowing the discovery of process models to give insight of the processes and understand how they can be improved. In this work different process mining techniques are applied to a company dedicated to the advertisement market, specifically the process of dealing with contract issues with customers. The Process Mining Project Methodology was followed to execute a case study. Additional to the basic methodology, elements from the others areas of studies were added to generate better results and have a better understanding of the problem. The case study includes three scenarios with three different hypotheses that were validated through our method.

This article has the purpose of presenting the results of a gender-driven investigation about the perception that students, enrolled in the Bachelor of enterprise computing/Corporate IT offered at the University of Costa Rica (Western Campus), have when choosing a career to enroll in and what their work life expectations are. This essay presents therefore; the factors that encourage women, in the largest regional campus (San Ramon and Grecia), to enroll in this program and it points out what their expectations are for when they will walk out in the working market. This essay also includes an analysis on the similarities and differences found when compared to the opinions of men in this same regional campus.