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Towards a Holistic Discovery of Decisions in Process-Aware Information Systems

verfasst von : Johannes De Smedt, Faruk Hasić, Seppe K. L. M. vanden Broucke, Jan Vanthienen

Erschienen in: Business Process Management

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

The interest of integrating decision analysis approaches with the automated discovery of processes from data has seen a vast surge over the past few years. Most notably the introduction of the Decision Model and Notation (DMN) standard by the Object Management Group has provided a suitable solution for filling the void of decision representation in business process modeling languages. Process discovery has already embraced DMN for so-called decision mining, however, the efforts are still limited to a control flow point of view, i.e., explaining routing (constructs) or decision points. This work, however, introduces an integrated way of capturing the decisions that are embedded in the process, which is not limited to local characteristics, but provides a decision model in the form of a decision diagram which encompasses the full process execution span. Therefore, a typology is proposed for classifying different activities that contribute to the decision dimension of the process. This enables the possibility for an in-depth analysis of every activity, deciding whether it entails a decision, and what its relation is to other activities. The findings are implemented and illustrated on the 2013 BPI Challenge log, an exemplary dataset originating from a decision-driven process.

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Metadaten
Titel
Towards a Holistic Discovery of Decisions in Process-Aware Information Systems
verfasst von
Johannes De Smedt
Faruk Hasić
Seppe K. L. M. vanden Broucke
Jan Vanthienen
Copyright-Jahr
2017
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65000-5_11

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