2013 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Discovering Block-Structured Process Models from Event Logs - A Constructive Approach
verfasst von : Sander J. J. Leemans, Dirk Fahland, Wil M. P. van der Aalst
Erschienen in: Application and Theory of Petri Nets and Concurrency
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Process discovery is the problem of, given a log of observed behaviour, finding a process model that ‘best’ describes this behaviour. A large variety of process discovery algorithms has been proposed. However, no existing algorithm guarantees to return a fitting model (i.e., able to reproduce all observed behaviour) that is sound (free of deadlocks and other anomalies) in finite time. We present an extensible framework to discover from any given log a set of block-structured process models that are sound and fit the observed behaviour. In addition we characterise the minimal information required in the log to rediscover a particular process model. We then provide a polynomial-time algorithm for discovering a sound, fitting, block-structured model from any given log; we give sufficient conditions on the log for which our algorithm returns a model that is language-equivalent to the process model underlying the log, including unseen behaviour. The technique is implemented in a prototypical tool.