Discovering Guard Stage Milestone Models Through Hierarchical Clustering

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Abstract

Processes executed on enterprise Information Systems (IS), such as ERP and CMS, are artifact-centric. The execution of these processes is driven by the creation and evolution of business entities called artifacts. Several artifact-centric modeling languages were proposed to capture the specificity of these processes. One of the most used artifact-centric modeling languages is the Guard Stage Milestone (GSM) language. It represents an artifact-centric process as an information model and a lifecycle. The lifecycle groups activities in stages with data conditions as guards. The hierarchy between the stages is based on common conditions. However, existing works do not discover this hierarchy nor the data conditions, as they considered them to be already available. They also do not discover GSM models directly from event logs. They discover Petri nets and translate them into GSM models. To fill this gap, we propose in this paper a discovery approach based on hierarchical clustering. We use invariants detection to discover data conditions and information gain of common conditions to cluster stages. The approach does not rely on domain knowledge nor translation mechanisms. It was implemented and evaluated using a blockchain case study.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCooperative Information Systems - 29th International Conference, CoopIS 2023, Proceedings
EditorsMohamed Sellami, Walid Gaaloul, Maria-Esther Vidal, Boudewijn van Dongen, Hervé Panetto
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages239-256
Number of pages18
ISBN (Print)9783031468452
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2024
Event29th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems, CoopIS 2023 - Groningen, Netherlands
Duration: 30 Oct 20233 Nov 2023

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume14353 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference29th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems, CoopIS 2023
Country/TerritoryNetherlands
CityGroningen
Period30/10/233/11/23

Keywords

  • Artifact-Centric Event Logs
  • Artifact-Centric Processes
  • Guard-Stage-Milestone
  • Process mining

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