How to automatically generate the Petri net model using inductive miner?

WidadEs-Soufi

Dear all,

I am using ProM 6.6 for my process analysis tasks (Petri net model and decision rules and trace variants generation). Now, I want to automate the generation of the Petri net model from the XES log using Java (the petri net model is generated using the inductive miner). So, using the rapidprom and the openXES jars, I wrote the code:

public class PetriNetGenerationAutomationClass {

public static void main(String[] args) throws FileNotFoundException, Exception {

//loading the xes file

String xesFilePath = "C:\\TraceVariantTest\\runningExample.xes";

File file = new File(xesFilePath);

String outputPNMLFilePath = "W:\\TraceVariantTest\\OutputPNML";

File outputPNMLFile = new File(xesFilePath);

XLog myXesLog = XUtils .loadLog(file);

System.out.println("myXESLog is succesfully read! \n");

//here, I want to load the default parameters ("variant=Inductive Miner (IM)" and "Event classifier=concept:name" as in proM 6.6)

XEventClassifier classifier = MiningParameters.getDefaultClassifier();

MiningParameters parameters = new org.processmining.plugins.InductiveMiner.mining.MiningParametersIMi();

Object[] object = IMPetriNet.minePetriNet(myXesLog, parameters); //I don't understand why am I having an object[] here, but I assume the petri net model is the first element

Petrinet petriNetModel = (Petrinet) object[0];

PetriNetFileFormat format = PetriNetFileFormat.PNML;

//Export the petri net model in pnml format

writeToFile(outputPNMLFile, petriNetModel, format); //of the ExportPetriNetOperator class

}

\\To avoid the error "The method writeToFile(File, Petrinet, PetriNetFileFormat) is undefined for the type PetriNetGenerationAutomationClass" I copied and pasted the function in my code

static void writeToFile(File file, Petrinet object, PetriNetFileFormat format) throws IOException {

switch (format) {

case EPNML:

PnmlExportNetToEPNML exporterEPNML = new PnmlExportNetToEPNML();

exporterEPNML.exportPetriNetToEPNMLFile(RapidProMGlobalContext.instance().getPluginContext(), object, file);

break;

case PNML:

default:

PnmlExportNetToPNML exporterPNML = new PnmlExportNetToPNML();

exporterPNML.exportPetriNetToPNMLFile(RapidProMGlobalContext.instance().getPluginContext(), object, file);

break;

}

}

}


The code above is generating a NullPointerException error, caused by the "writeToFile". Is there any other solutions allowing us to export the petri net model in pnml format? are the mining parameters specified correctly?

I appreciate your feedback,
Regards,
Widad