Extracting Event Logs for Process Mining from Data Stored on the Blockchain

Mühlberger, Roman; Bachhofner, Stefan; Ciccio, Claudio Di; García‐Bañuelos, Luciano; López‐Pintado, Orlenys

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-37453-2_55

Cited by 34 publications

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“…This is similarly done by other frameworks like [12][13][14]. The logs form an auditable execution trail that may be analyzed using process mining [21,22]. Other frameworks, like [12,19], rely on centrally installed components while our framework does not rely on a central component.…”

Section: Design Decisionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Blockchain-based Cross-Organizational Execution Framework for Dynamic Integration of Process Collaborations

Klinger¹,

Bodendorf²

2020

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Cross-organizational business processes involving multiple participants are choreographed, thus rely on mutual trust of collaborators or need to be coordinated by a central instance. Using Smart Contracts, business processes can be executed without a mutually trusted and centralized orchestrating authority. Former Blockchain-based execution framework proposals focus on orchestration diagrams as a basis for execution. Contrary, this work focuses on BPMN process collaboration diagrams as implementation basis and makes additional transformation steps obsolete. With the herein proposed framework for execution of cross-organizational process collaborations, another approach for the implementation and execution of interorganizational processes on a Blockchain is presented, including a voting mechanism for process deployment as well as a subscription service to facilitate process handovers between participants more efficiently. The framework is exemplified and evaluated with a use case from a large German industrial manufacturing company.

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Section: Design Decisionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Blockchain-based Cross-Organizational Execution Framework for Dynamic Integration of Process Collaborations

Klinger¹,

Bodendorf²

2020

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“…From the monitoring perspective, the efforts have been mostly devoted to event data logging thus far: the main rationale is to extract and process the payload of transactions to turn them into event logs that are readily available for process mining tools. The ordering of events is based upon the ordering of the transactions in the ledger, whereas the attributes of the event (activity name, timestamp, resource, and the like) are identified based on the signature of the invoked function on the smart contract [14], a user-defined descriptor (manifest) [8], or the change of the smart contract's attribute value [5]. Thereupon, process mining techniques (including conformance checking) are held to analyse the generated event logs.…”

Section: Current Approachesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Research towards the adoption of blockchains for the monitoring of processes is, however, still at its early stages. Thus far, most of the attempts have focused on the generation of readily usable data for the application of existing process mining techniques [5,8,14] and the creation of networks highlighting the most common patterns of exchange of information and assets among peers [6,7,16]. A comprehensive analysis of the aspects of blockchains that may favour or encumber the monitoring of processes is, to the best of our knowledge, still missing.…”

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Business Process Monitoring on Blockchains: Potentials and Challenges

Ciccio

Meroni

Plebani

2020

Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling

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The ability to enable a tamper-proof distribution of immutable data has boosted the studies around the adoption of blockchains also in Business Process Management. In this direction, current research work primarily focuses on blockchain-based business process design, or on execution engines able to enact processes through smart contracts. Although very relevant, less studies have been devoted so far on how the adoption of blockchains can be beneficial to business process monitoring. This work goes into this direction by providing an insightful analysis to understand the benefits as well as the hurdles of blockchain-enabled business process monitoring. In particular, this work considers the adoption of programmable blockchain platforms to manage the generation, distribution, and analysis of business process monitoring data.

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“…Contracts are stored in the form of bytecode, which is interpreted by the Ethereum Virtual Machine [10]. Interaction with deployed Smart Contracts requires their application binary interface (ABI) to encode the invocation from machine-into human-readable code and vice versa [11].…”

Section: Blockchain and Smart Contractsmentioning

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A Subscription Service for Automated Communication and Fair Cost Distribution in Collaborative Blockchainbased Business Processes

Schindelmann¹,

Klinger²,

Bodendorf³

2020

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Blockchain capabilities like Ethereum Smart Contracts offer great opportunities to manage cross-organizational business processes due to their trustless and tamperproof nature. However, communication in such processes poses a major issue since there is no direct option for one participating organization to inform other collaborators about their individual progress in their impersonation as a Smart Contract. As that knowledge is vital to execute a cross-organizational process, we design a Smart Contract architecture in which participants express their progress through Blockchain events. Furthermore, we implement a prototype that subscribes to the relevant events of one or more participants and reacts to their occurrence by triggering the subsequent step(s) of the process. Evaluation of the prototype and architecture shows that this does not only avoid unnecessary latency in process communication but also results in a fair cost distribution as each participant is only charged for the expenses of its individual actions.

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Extracting Event Logs for Process Mining from Data Stored on the Blockchain

Cited by 34 publications

References 29 publications

Blockchain-based Cross-Organizational Execution Framework for Dynamic Integration of Process Collaborations

Blockchain-based Cross-Organizational Execution Framework for Dynamic Integration of Process Collaborations

Business Process Monitoring on Blockchains: Potentials and Challenges

A Subscription Service for Automated Communication and Fair Cost Distribution in Collaborative Blockchainbased Business Processes

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