A Framework to Analyze Business Process Log in XML Format

Abstract

XML has numerous uses in a wide variety of web pages and applications. Some common uses of XML include tasks for web publishing, web searching and automation, and general application such as for utilize, store, transfer and display business process log data. The amount of information expressed in XML has gone up rapidly. Many works have been done on sensible approaches to address issues related to the handling and review of XML documents. Mining XML documents offera way to understand both the structure and the content of XML documents. A common approach capable of analysing XML documents is frequent subtree mining.Frequent subtree mining is one of the data mining techniques that finds the relationship between transactions in a tree structured database. Due to the structure and the content of XML format, traditional data mining and statistical analysis hardly applied to get accurate result. This paper proposes a framework that can flatten a tree structured data into a flat and structured data, while preserving their structure and content.Enabling these XML documents into relational structured data allows a range of data mining techniques and statistical test can be applied and conducted to extract more information from the business process log.