A General Framework for Correlating Business Process Characteristics

A general process mining framework for correlating, predicting and clustering dynamic behavior based on event logs

“…Furthermore, before drawing such diagrams, one needs to gain the necessary insights, which our framework facilitates to obtain. This paper extends the framework initially proposed in [21] to allow grouping the traces of an event log into clusters. Literature proposes a large number of approaches to address this topic, e.g.…”

“…Compared with the implementation reported in [21], the nodes of the trees are now filled in with a color. The color of an internal node depends on the perspective of the referred process characteristics.…”

Discovering Characteristics that Affect Process Control Flow

“…The same concept is also applied in [14], yet focusing just on the multi-choice workflow pattern [15] case. In [2], the same concept is generalized by proposing a generic framework according to which virtually any characteristics can be correlated (again through decision trees classification) to another one. Authors indeed recommend the automated creation of a number of related characteristics to be evaluated as affecting factors.…”

“…The next step that could add greater value to organizations is to reach perceptive conclusions about how this variability is related to process characteristics. As discussed in [2], if process flow variability can be pointedly attributed to characteristics, a great potential for process analysis is unleashed: we will be able to correlate the control flow to other perspectives (e.g. the organizational perspective, the data perspective etc.).…”

“…They use machine-learning techniques (Decision Trees) to analyze how data attributes influence the choices made during the process execution. Following this concept, authors of [2] propose a general framework about how process characteristics can be derived and correlated. In this paper, we built on the same concept of discovering the characteristics that affect the process control-flow, by adding an augmented potential to the analyst's toolkit.…”