Monitoring and Mining Flexible Processes

Abstract

Accountability and traceability are important requirements any flexible PAIS needs to fulfill. This chapter describes how execution and change logs can be used to restore the structure and state of a process instance for any given point in time. The information recorded in event and change logs, however, can not only be exploited to ensure accountability and traceability, but used for analysis purposes as well. This chapter discusses different process mining techniques for analyzing flexible business processes. In particular, it presents techniques for the mining of execution logs and change logs. Finally, advanced techniques for analyzing process variant collections in the absence of a change log are introduced.