COMP9313 - Process Mining

Process mining: Processing mining is a family of techniques in the field of process management that support the analysis of business processes based on event logs. During process mining, specialised data mining algorithms are applied to event log data in order to identify trends, patterns and details contained in event logs recorded by an information system.

Process mining is about discovering what people really do in practice.

Data mining vs Process mining

Data Mining and Process Mining

Petri nets for business process modeling

Petri net: A Petri net also known as a place/transition(PT) net, is one of several mathematical modeling languages for the description of distributed systems.

Petri nets

Metrics for comformance checking

Fitness: How well is model able to replay the log.
Structural appropriateness: How many unnecessary redundant and invisible tasks are there in the model.
Behavioural appropriateness: How much extra behaviour is allowed by the model.