Issues in Process Variants Mining

Li, Chen and Reichert, Manfred and Wombacher, Andreas (2008) Issues in Process Variants Mining. Technical Report. University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands.

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Abstract

In today's dynamic business world economic success of an enterprise increasingly depends on its ability to react to internal and external changes in a quick and flexible way. In response to this need, process-aware information systems (PAIS) emerged, which support the modeling, orchestration and monitoring of business processes and services respectively. Recently, a new generation of flexible PAIS was introduced, which additionally allows for dynamic process and service changes. This, in turn, will lead to a large number of process variants, which are created from the same original process model, but might slightly differ from each other. This paper deals with issues related to the mining of such process variant collections. Our overall goal is to learn from process changes and to merge the resulting model variants into a generic process model in the best possible way. By adopting this generic process model in the PAIS, future cost of process change and need for process adaptations will decrease. Finally, we compare our approach with existing process mining techniques, and show that process variants mining is additionally needed to learn from process changes.

Item Type: Monograph (Technical Report)
Subjects: DBIS Research > Publications
Depositing User: Prof. Dr. Manfred Reichert
Date Deposited: 21 Jun 2008 22:32
Last Modified: 19 Aug 2013 19:41
URI: http://dbis.eprints.uni-ulm.de/id/eprint/409

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