Promoting resource discovery in business process variability

Abstract

Process discovery is one of the main areas of process mining approach, it consists of discovering process model from event logs in terms of different perspectives such as control- flow, data and resource. Analysis results of these models are of great importance in the sense that it can provides a better visibility for the enterprise to improve decision made. Furthermore, with the emergence of business process reuse by managing variability in business processes, process discovery approaches are interested in variability discovery through the concept process mining. However, the majority of existing discovery approaches focus on control flow perspective as for resources are still neglected, even if the business process is a set of activities ordered in time and ensured by resources witch collaborate to accomplish a specific business goal. In our previous work, we have presented a variability discovery approach for configurable process with focus on control flow perspective. In this paper, we complete our work by proposing a variability discovery approach for resource perspective.