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Discovering workflow models from activities’ lifespans

✍ Scribed by Shlomit S. Pinter; Mati Golani

Book ID
104015472
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2004
Tongue
English
Weight
197 KB
Volume
53
Category
Article
ISSN
0166-3615

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✦ Synopsis

Workflow systems utilize a process model for managing business processes. The model is typically a directed graph annotated with activity names. We view the execution of an activity as a time interval, and present two new algorithms for synthesizing process models from sets of systems' executions (audit log). A model graph generated by each of the algorithms for a process, captures all its executions and dependencies that are present in the log, and preserves existing parallelism.

We compare the model graphs synthesized by our algorithms to those of Agrawal et al. [Mining process models from workflow logs, in:

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