Dealing With Concept Drifts in Process Mining

Dealing With Concept Drifts in Process Mining

ABSTRACT:

Although most business processes change over time, contemporary process mining techniques tend to analyze these processes as if they are in a steady state. Processes may change suddenly or gradually. The drift may be periodic (e.g., because of seasonal influences) or one-of-a-kind (e.g., the effects of new legislation). For the process management, it is crucial to discover and understand such concept drifts in processes. This paper presents a generic framework and specific techniques to detect when a process changes and to localize the parts of the process that have changed. Different features are proposed to characterize relationships among activities. These features are used to discover differences between successive populations. The approach has been implemented as a plug-in of the ProM processmining framework and has been evaluated using both simulated event data exhibiting controlled concept drifts and real-life event data from a Dutch municipality.

EXISTING SYSTEM:

Ø The process is stable and enough example traces have been recorded in the event log, itis possible to discover a high quality process model that can be used for performance analysis, compliance checking, and prediction.

Ø Unfortunately, most processes are not in steady-state. In today's dynamic marketplace, it is increasingly necessary for enterprises to streamline their processes so as to reduce costs and to improve performance.

DISADVANTAGES OF EXISTING SYSTEM:

Ø Characterization in an offline setting.

Ø Change point detection: To detect concept drift in processes, i.e., to detect that a process change has taken place.

Ø Change localization and characterization.

Ø Change process discovery: Having identified, localized, and characterized the changes, it is necessary to put all of these in perspective.

PROPOSED SYSTEM:

Ø In this paper, we have introduced the topic of concept drift in process mining, i.e., analyzing process changes based on event logs.

Ø We proposed feature sets and techniques to effectively detect the changes in event logs and identify the regions of change in a process.

ADVANTAGES OF PROPOSED SYSTEM:

Ø Heterogeneity of cases arising because of process changes can be effectively dealt with by detecting concept drifts.

Ø Supporting or improving operational processes and to obtain an accurate insight on process executions at any instant of time.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:

HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS:

Ø System                          :         Pentium IV 2.4 GHz.

Ø Hard Disk                      :         40 GB.

Ø Floppy Drive                 :         1.44 Mb.

Ø Monitor                         :         15 VGA Colour.

Ø Mouse                            :         Logitech.

Ø Ram                               :         512 Mb.

SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS:

Ø Operating system           :         Windows XP/7.

Ø Coding Language :         JAVA/J2EE

Ø IDE                      :         Netbeans 7.4

Ø Database              :         MYSQL

REFERENCE:

R. P. Jagadeesh Chandra Bose, Wil M. P. van der Aalst, Indr ̇ Žliobait ̇ , and Mykola Pechenizkiy,“Dealing With Concept Drifts in Process Mining”,VOL. 25, NO. 1, JANUARY 2014.