Josep Carmona

Matthias Weidlich

Boudewijn van Dongen

Andreas Solti

This book introduces readers to the field of conformance checking as a whole and outlines the fundamental relation between modelled and recorded behaviour. Conformance checking interrelates the modelled and recorded behaviour of a given process and provides techniques and methods for comparing and analysing observed instances of a process in the presence of a model, independent of the model’s origin. Its goal is to provide an overview of the essential techniques and methods in this field at an intuitive level, together with precise formalisations of its underlying principles. The book is divided into three parts, that are meant to cover different perspectives of the field of conformance checking. Part I presents a comprehensive yet accessible overview of the essential concepts used to interrelate modelled and recorded behaviour. It also serves as a reference for assessing how conformance checking efforts could be applied in specific domains. Next, Part II provides readers with detailed insights into algorithms for conformance checking, including the most commonly used formal notions and their instantiation for specific analysis questions. Lastly, Part III highlights applications that help to make sense of conformance checking results, thereby providing a necessary next step to increase the value of a given process model. They help to interpret the outcomes of conformance checking and incorporate them by means of enhancement and repair techniques. Providing the core building blocks of conformance checking and describing its main applications, this book mainly addresses students specializing in business process management, researchers entering process mining and conformance checking for the first time, and advanced professionals whose work involves process evaluation, modelling and optimization.

Relating Processes and Models

Conformance Checking

Didier Buchs

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Application and Theory of Petri Nets and Concurrency, PETRI NETS 2021, which was held virtually in June 2021. The 22 full papers presented together with 2 keynote papers in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 39 submissions. The focus of the conference is on the following topics: application of concurrency to system design; games; verification; synthesis and mining; reachability and partial order; semantics; and tools.

42nd International Conference, PETRI NETS 2021, Virtual Event, June 23–25, 2021, Proceedings

Application and Theory of Petri Nets and Concurrency

Akhil Kumar

Gregor Engels

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2017, held in Barcelona, Spain, in September 2017.The 19 revised full papers papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 116 initial submissions. The topics selected by the authors demonstrate an increasing interest of the research community in the area of process mining, resonated by an equally fast-growing uptake by different industry sectors. The papers are organized in topical sections on process modeling; process mining; assorted BPM topics; decisions and understanding; and process knowledge.

15th International Conference, BPM 2017, Barcelona, Spain, September 10–15, 2017, Proceedings

Business Process Management

Josep Carmona

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