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Process mining
• Automated process discovery
• Conformance checking
• Performance mining
• Variant analysis
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Structure of a Business Process Event Log
Event log
Process Mining
Automated Process
Discovery discovered
process model
event log
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Automated Process Discovery
An automated process discovery technique
takes as input an event log and produces as
output a process model that captures the Process Map
behavior of the log in a representative way. (directly follows graph)
CID Task Time Stamp …
event log
Conformance
Checking
✓/
Business rules /
normative model 15
Conformance checking
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Process Mining
Automated Process
Discovery discovered
process model
Performance
Mining
event log
Enhanced
process model
Conformance
Checking
✓/
Business rules /
normative model 19
Performance Mining
•Process mining tools typically support performance mining
in thee ways:
• Performance-enhanced process maps
• Dashboards
• Log animation
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Peformance-Enhanced Process Map
Activity label
(and its duration)
Automated Process
Discovery discovered
process model
Business rules /
normative model 23
Variant Analysis
Simple cases Complex cases
Find differences in 75% 25%
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Variant Analysis
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Summary: Four Process Mining Capabilities
EVENT LOGS