Title
Split miner: automated discovery of accurate and simple business process models from event logs
Abstract
The problem of automated discovery of process models from event logs has been intensively researched in the past two decades. Despite a rich field of proposals, state-of-the-art automated process discovery methods suffer from two recurrent deficiencies when applied to real-life logs: (i) they produce large and spaghetti-like models; and (ii) they produce models that either poorly fit the event log (low fitness) or over-generalize it (low precision). Striking a trade-off between these quality dimensions in a robust and scalable manner has proved elusive. This paper presents an automated process discovery method, namely Split Miner, which produces simple process models with low branching complexity and consistently high and balanced fitness and precision, while achieving considerably faster execution times than state-of-the-art methods, measured on a benchmark covering twelve real-life event logs. Split Miner combines a novel approach to filter the directly-follows graph induced by an event log, with an approach to identify combinations of split gateways that accurately capture the concurrency, conflict and causal relations between neighbors in the directly-follows graph. Split Miner is also the first automated process discovery method that is guaranteed to produce deadlock-free process models with concurrency, while not being restricted to producing block-structured process models.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1007/s10115-018-1214-x
Knowledge and Information Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
Process mining,Automated process discovery,Event log,BPMN
Data mining,Computer science,Causal relations,Concurrency,Process modeling,Artificial intelligence,Business process modeling,Business process discovery,Machine learning,Business Process Model and Notation,Scalability,Process mining
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
59.0
2.0
0219-3116
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
9
0.51
26
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Adriano Augusto1332.99
Raffaele Conforti217212.85
Marlon Dumas35742371.10
marcello la rosa4140281.70
Artem Polyvyanyy5134.97