Mining Workflow Processes from XML-Based Distributed Workflow Event Logs

In this paper, we particularly focus on mining the behavioral aspect of workflows from XML-based workflow enactment event logs, which are vertically (semantic-driven distribution) or horizontally (syntactic-driven distribution) distributed over the networked workflow enactment components. That is, this paper proposes a distributed workflow mining approach that is able to rediscover ICN-based structured workflow process models through incrementally amalgamating a series of vertically or horizontally fragmented temporal workcases. The approach has two essential algorithms; One is a temporal fragment discovery algorithm that is able to discover a set of temporal fragment models from the fragmented workflow enactment event logs, and the other is a workflow process mining algorithm that rediscovers a structured workflow process model from the discovered temporal fragment models. Where, the temporal fragment model represents the concrete model of the XML-based distributed workflow fragment events log.