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Abstract | ||
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Today's enterprise business processes become increasingly complex given that they are often executed by geographically dispersed partners or different organizations. Designing and modeling such a cross-organizational workflow is a complicated, time-consuming process and requires that a designer has extensive experience. Workflow logs captured by different cross-organizational systems provide a very valuable source of information on how business processes are executed in reality and thus can be used to derive workflow models through process mining. In this paper, we investigate the application of process mining for workflow integration based on the concept of RM_WF_Net, a type of Petri net extended with resource and message factors. Four coordination patterns are defined for workflow integration. A process mining approach is presented to discover the coordination patterns between different organizations and the workflow models in different organizations from the running logs containing the information about resource allocation. A process integration approach is then presented to obtain the model for a cross-organizational workflow based on the model mined for each organization and the coordination patterns between different organizations. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2013 | 10.1016/j.dss.2012.12.001 | Decision Support Systems |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
process integration approach,business process,different cross-organizational system,process mining,process mining approach,coordination pattern,different organization,workflow model,multi-source log,cross-organizational workflow,cross-organizational collaborative workflow mining,workflow integration,petri net | Data mining,Workflow Management Coalition,Workflow technology,Computer science,Windows Workflow Foundation,Knowledge management,XPDL,Workflow engine,Workflow management system,Workflow,Process mining | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
54 | 3 | 0167-9236 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
9 | 0.50 | 24 |
Authors | ||
5 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Qingtian Zeng | 1 | 242 | 43.67 |
| Sherry X. Sun | 2 | 237 | 14.74 |
| Hua Duan | 3 | 110 | 19.58 |
| Cong Liu | 4 | 128 | 14.67 |
| Huaiqing Wang | 5 | 1345 | 144.20 |