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A Trace Clustering Solution Based on Using the Distance Graph Model

Authors : Quang-Thuy Ha, Hong-Nhung Bui, Tri-Thanh Nguyen

Published in: Computational Collective Intelligence

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Process discovery is the most important task in the process mining. Because of the complexity of event logs (i.e. activities of several different processes are written into the same log), the discovered process models may be diffuse and unintelligible. That is why the input event logs should be clustered into simpler event sub-logs. This work provides a trace clustering solution based on the idea of using the distance graph model for trace representation. Experimental results proved the effect of the proposed solution on two measures of Fitness and Precision, especially the effect on the Precision measure.

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Metadata
Title
A Trace Clustering Solution Based on Using the Distance Graph Model
Authors
Quang-Thuy Ha
Hong-Nhung Bui
Tri-Thanh Nguyen
Copyright Year
2016
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45243-2_29

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