WORKFLOW TREES FOR REPRESENTATION AND MINING OF IMPLICITLY CONCURRENT BUSINESS PROCESSES

Daniel Nikovski

2008

Abstract

We propose a novel representation of business processes called workflow trees that facilitates the mining of process models where the parallel execution of two or more sub-processes has not been recorded explicitly in workflow logs. Based on the provable property of workflow trees that a pair of tasks are siblings in the tree if and only if they have identical respective workflow-log relations with each and every remaining third task in the process, we describe an efficient business process mining algorithm of complexity only cubic in the number of process tasks, and analyze the class of processes that can be identified and reconstructed by it.

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in Harvard Style

Nikovski D. (2008). WORKFLOW TREES FOR REPRESENTATION AND MINING OF IMPLICITLY CONCURRENT BUSINESS PROCESSES . In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 6: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8111-38-8, pages 30-36. DOI: 10.5220/0001671900300036


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis08,
author={Daniel Nikovski},
title={WORKFLOW TREES FOR REPRESENTATION AND MINING OF IMPLICITLY CONCURRENT BUSINESS PROCESSES},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 6: ICEIS,},
year={2008},
pages={30-36},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001671900300036},
isbn={978-989-8111-38-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 6: ICEIS,
TI - WORKFLOW TREES FOR REPRESENTATION AND MINING OF IMPLICITLY CONCURRENT BUSINESS PROCESSES
SN - 978-989-8111-38-8
AU - Nikovski D.
PY - 2008
SP - 30
EP - 36
DO - 10.5220/0001671900300036