TY - GEN
T1 - Process instance similarity
T2 - Confederated International Conference On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems, OTM 2016 held in conjunction with Conferences on CoopIS, CandTC and ODBASE 2016
AU - Pflug, Johannes
AU - Rinderle-Ma, Stefanie
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer International Publishing AG 2016.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - The analysis of process instance similarity offers valuable input for certain application fields including the evaluation of instance clusters, the identification of compliance abuses, and process optimization. In this paper, we discuss the topic of instance similarity in general: We show that similarity might be determined from different process perspectives such as control flow, time, and instance attributes. Each of these perspectives impose individual requirements on the similarity calculation concerning data and structure. Four metrics for process instance similarity are proposed covering different perspectives. The applicability and feasibility of the proposed metrics are evaluated based on a prototypical implementation and real-world process logs from the BPI challenges.
AB - The analysis of process instance similarity offers valuable input for certain application fields including the evaluation of instance clusters, the identification of compliance abuses, and process optimization. In this paper, we discuss the topic of instance similarity in general: We show that similarity might be determined from different process perspectives such as control flow, time, and instance attributes. Each of these perspectives impose individual requirements on the similarity calculation concerning data and structure. Four metrics for process instance similarity are proposed covering different perspectives. The applicability and feasibility of the proposed metrics are evaluated based on a prototypical implementation and real-world process logs from the BPI challenges.
KW - Business process analysis
KW - Process instance similarity
KW - Similarity metrics
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84995955704
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-48472-3_8
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-48472-3_8
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84995955704
SN - 9783319484716
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 136
EP - 154
BT - On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems
A2 - Dillon, Tharam
A2 - Debruyne, Christophe
A2 - Oâ’Sullivan, Declan
A2 - Panetto, Herve
A2 - Kuhn, Eva
A2 - Ardagna, Claudio Agostino
A2 - Meersman, Robert
PB - Springer Verlag
Y2 - 24 October 2016 through 28 October 2016
ER -