Title
Case notion discovery and recommendation: automated event log building on databases
Abstract
Process mining techniques use event logs as input. When analyzing complex databases, these event logs can be built in many ways. Events need to be grouped into traces corresponding to a case. Different groupings provide different views on the data. Building event logs is usually a time-consuming, manual task. This paper provides a precise view on the case notion on databases, which enables the automatic computation of event logs. Also, it provides a way to assess event log quality, used to rank event logs with respect to their interestingness. The computational cost of building an event log can be avoided by predicting the interestingness of a case notion, before the corresponding event log is computed. This makes it possible to give recommendations to users, so they can focus on the analysis of the most promising process views. Finally, the accuracy of the predictions and the quality of the rankings generated by our unsupervised technique are evaluated in comparison to the existing regression techniques as well as to state-of-the-art learning to rank algorithms from the information retrieval field. The results show that our prediction technique succeeds at discovering interesting event logs and provides valuable recommendations to users about the perspectives on which to focus the efforts during the analysis.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1007/s10115-019-01430-6
Knowledge and Information Systems
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Process mining, Event log, Database, Case notion, Recommendation, Ranking
Journal
62
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
7
0219-1377
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Eduardo González López de Murillas1122.38
Hajo A. Reijers23424193.65
Wil Van Der Aalst3208941418.27