Abstract
In Big data and IoT environments, process execution generates huge-sized data some of which is subsequently obtained by sensors. The main issue in such areas has been the necessity of analyzing data in order to suggest enhancements to processes. In this regard, evaluation of process model conformance to the execution log is of great importance. For this purpose, previous reports on process mining approaches have advocated conformance checking by fitness measure, which is a process that uses token replay and node-arc relations based on Petri net. However, fitness measure so far has not considered statistical significance, but just offers a numeric ratio. We herein propose a statistical verification method based on the Kolmogorov–Smirnov (K–S) test to judge whether two different log datasets follow the same process model. Our method can be easily extended to determinations that process execution actually follows a process model, by playing out the model and generating event log data from it. Additionally, in order to solve the problem of the trade-off between model abstraction and process conformance, we also propose the new concepts of Confidence Interval of Abstraction Value (CIAV) and Maximum Confidence Abstraction Value (MCAV). We showed that our method can be applied to any process mining algorithm (e.g. heuristic mining, fuzzy mining) that has parameters related to model abstraction. We expect that our method will come to be widely utilized in many applications dealing with business process enhancement involving process-model and execution-log analyses.
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