Towards a Framework for the Agile Mining of Business Processes

Abstract. In order to support business processes effectively, their implementation by a process management systems (PMS) must be as close to the real world’s processes as possible. Generally, it is not sufficient to analyze and model a business process only once, and then to handle respective business cases according to the defined model for a long period of time. Instead, process implementations must be quickly adaptable to changing needs. A PMS should enable process instance changes and provide facilities for analyzing these instance-specific changes in order to derive optimized process models. In this paper we introduce a framework for the agile mining of business processes which supports the whole process life cycle in an integrated way. Our framework is based on process mining techniques, adaptive process management, and conversational case-based reasoning. On the one hand, it allows annotating execution and change logs with semantical information to gather information about ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: BPM
• Authors: Barbara Weber, Manfred Reichert, Stefanie Rinderle, Werner Wild
• Keywords: BPM 2005, Business, Process Instances, Process Management, Process Models