Process Mining and Process Discovery

SRB · March 2020

Hello All,

I am new to this domain. My goal is to find similarities between event logs pattern. For this I have selected alpha algorithm. I have already seen videos about heuristic approach in ProM. But my confusion is that how can I implement this in my java project using ProM Framework/Plugin. Is this possible or not? Have I selected a right algorithm for this task?
As I said I am new to this domain, it would be very helpful for me if someone guide me about this stating step.

Thanks

hverbeek · March 2020

Hi,

The Alpha Miner plugin in ProM is implemented in the AlphaMiner package. The sources for this package can be found at https://svn.win.tue.nl/repos/prom/Packages/AlphaMiner/Trunk. The ProM framework is just the glue that brings all plugins together, you will not find many plugins in the framework.

On https://svn.win.tue.nl/trac/prom/wiki/ProM69/Plugins you will find a list of plugins in the latest (6.9) ProM release, which includes in which package the plugin has been implemented. In general, you can download a package from https://svn.win.tue.nl/repos/prom/Packages/<package name>/Trunk.

Although the Alpha Miner is theoretically very nice, in practice it does not provide good results as it cannot handle noise. If you have a real-life event log, then there will be some noise, which makes the Alpha Miner a bad choice. The Heuristics Miner and the Inductive Miner are much better in handling noise.

Kind regards,

Eric.

SRB · March 2020

Thank you Eric for you detailed response. I am considering Heuristics miner over alpha miner. I successfully compiled the Heuristics package.

I found some documentation of Heuristics miner "https://svn.win.tue.nl/trac/prom/browser/Documentation/UsersGuideHeuristicsMiner6.0" but I could not found any technical documentation about this package. Because as I mentioned my goal is to extract similar patterns from event logs. My question is at what extent this package can help me and what are the things I need to implement by my own.

it would be really helpful for me if you quote me any similar implementation if you have any.

Thanks in advance.

hverbeek · March 2020

Hi,

I guess you need to read the papers that introduced the heuristics miner. This includes the PhD thesis of Felix Mannhardt (see https://research.tue.nl/en/publications/multi-perspective-process-mining) and Joel Ribeiro (see https://pure.tue.nl/ws/files/3635772/750819.pdf), but also the earlier work of Ton Weijters (see https://research.tue.nl/en/publications/rediscovering-workflow-models-from-event-based-data-using-little-) and the book of WIl van der Aalst.

Kind regards,

Eric.

SRB · March 2020

Thank you Eric.

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