Di Ciccio, Claudio, Maggi, Fabrizio Maria, Montali, Marco, Mendling, Jan. 2015. Ensuring Model Consistency in Declarative Process Discovery. In Business Process Management, 13th International Conference, BPM 2015, Innsbruck, Austria, August 31 - September 3, 2015, Proceedings, Hrsg. Motahari-Nezhad, Hamid Reza, Recker, Jan, Weidlich, Matthias, S. 144-159. Innsbruck, Austria: Springer.
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Abstract
Declarative process models define the behaviour of business processes as a set of constraints. Declarative process discovery aims at inferring such constraints from event logs. Existing discovery techniques verify the satisfaction of candidate constraints over the log, but completely neglect their interactions. As a result, the inferred constraints can be mutually contradicting and their interplay may lead to an inconsistent process model that does not accept any trace. In such a case, the output turns out to be unusable for enactment, simulation or verification purposes. In addition, the discovered model contains, in general, redundancies that are due to complex interactions of several constraints and that cannot be solved using existing pruning approaches. We address these problems by proposing a technique that automatically resolves conflicts within the discovered models and is more powerful than existing pruning techniques to eliminate redundancies. First, we formally define the problems of constraint redundancy and conflict resolution. Thereafter, we introduce techniques based on the notion of an automata-product monoid that guarantee the consistency of the discovered models and, at the same time, keep the most interesting constraints in the pruned set. We evaluate the devised techniques on real-world benchmarks.
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Status of publication | Published |
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Affiliation | WU |
Type of publication | Contribution to conference proceedings |
Language | English |
Title | Ensuring Model Consistency in Declarative Process Discovery |
Title of whole publication | Business Process Management, 13th International Conference, BPM 2015, Innsbruck, Austria, August 31 - September 3, 2015, Proceedings |
Editor | Motahari-Nezhad, Hamid Reza, Recker, Jan, Weidlich, Matthias |
Page from | 144 |
Page to | 159 |
Location | Innsbruck, Austria |
Publisher | Springer |
Year | 2015 |
ISBN | 978-3-319-23062-7 |
URL | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23063-4_9 |
Associations
- Projects
- European Wide Service Platform for Green European Transportation
- People
- Di Ciccio, Claudio (Former researcher)
- Mendling, Jan (Details)
- External
- Maggi, Fabrizio Maria (University of Tartu, Estonia)
- Montali, Marco (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)
- Organization
- Institute for Data, Process and Knowledge Management (AE Sabou) (Details)
- Research areas (Ă–STAT Classification 'Statistik Austria')
- 1105 Computer software (Details)
- 1108 Informatics (Details)
- 1109 Information and data processing (Details)
- 1122 Artificial intelligence (Details)
- 1127 Information science (Details)
- 5306 Business data processing (Details)
- 5367 Management information systems (Details)