Sliding and Adaptive Windows to Improve Change Mining in Process Variability

Abstract

A configurable process Change Mining approach can detect changes from a collection of event logs and provide details on the unexpected behavior of all process variants of a configurable process. The strength of Change Mining lies in its ability to serve both conformance checking and enhancement purposes; users can simultaneously detect changes and ensure process conformance using a single, integrated framework. In prior research, a configurable process Change Mining algorithm has been introduced. Combined with our proposed preprocessing and change log generation methods, this algorithm forms a complete framework for detecting and recording changes in a collection of event logs. Testing the framework on synthetic data revealed limitations in detecting changes in different types of variable fragments. Consequently, it is recommended that the preprocessing approach be enhanced by applying a filtering algorithm based on sliding and adaptive windows. Our improved approach has been tested on various types of variable fragments to demonstrate its efficacy in enhancing Change Mining performance.

Keywords

• adaptive window algorithm
• configurable business process
• change mining
• filtering
• preprocessing
• process variability