Defining Meaningful Local Process Models

Defining Specialization for Process Models

Object-oriented analysis and design methods take full advantage of the object specialization hierarchy when it comes to modeling the objects in a system. When modeling system behavior, however, system analysts continue to rely on traditional tools such as state diagrams and dataflow diagrams. While such diagrams capture important aspects of the processes they model, they offer limited guidance ...

Mining local process models

In this paper we describe a method to discover frequent behavioral patterns in event logs. We express these patterns as local process models. Local process model mining can be positioned in-between process discovery and episode / sequential pattern mining. The technique presented in this paper is able to learn behavioral patterns involving sequential composition, concurrency, choice and loop, l...

Structural Considerations in Defining Executable Process Models

This paper examines the question of how to structure the representation of a process in order to assure that the representation is effective in supporting such diverse activities as process understanding, communication among process participants, and process execution. The paper uses the example of a negotiation process to demonstrate that one process structure (which we refer to as the narrati...

Defining and Measuring Meaningful Broadband Adoption

Debates about broadband adoption have gained a new urgency in the United States alongside concerns about the flagging economy and decreased global rankings in high-speed connectivity. Broadband adoption—the process of connecting approximately 100 million U.S. residents who are not online (FCC, 2012a; Horrigan & FCC, 2010)—has become a cause of anxiety and a call to action among policy makers in...

Local Process Models: Pattern Mining with Process Models