Process Mining and Process Discovery

SRB

Hello All,

I am new to this domain. My goal is to find similarities between event logs pattern. For this I have selected alpha algorithm. I have already seen videos about heuristic approach in ProM. But my confusion is that how can I implement this in my java project using ProM Framework/Plugin. Is this possible or not? Have I selected a right algorithm for this task?
As I said I am new to this domain, it would be very helpful for me if someone guide me about this stating step.

Thanks

hverbeek

Hi,

The Alpha Miner plugin in ProM is implemented in the AlphaMiner package. The sources for this package can be found at https://svn.win.tue.nl/repos/prom/Packages/AlphaMiner/Trunk. The ProM framework is just the glue that brings all plugins together, you will not find many plugins in the framework.

On https://svn.win.tue.nl/trac/prom/wiki/ProM69/Plugins you will find a list of plugins in the latest (6.9) ProM release, which includes in which package the plugin has been implemented. In general, you can download a package from https://svn.win.tue.nl/repos/prom/Packages/<package name>/Trunk.

Although the Alpha Miner is theoretically very nice, in practice it does not provide good results as it cannot handle noise. If you have a real-life event log, then there will be some noise, which makes the Alpha Miner a bad choice. The Heuristics Miner and the Inductive Miner are much better in handling noise.

Kind regards,

Eric.

SRB

Thank you Eric for you detailed response. I am considering Heuristics miner over alpha miner. I successfully compiled the Heuristics package. 

I found some documentation of Heuristics miner "https://svn.win.tue.nl/trac/prom/browser/Documentation/UsersGuideHeuristicsMiner6.0" but I could not found any technical documentation about this package. Because as I mentioned my goal is to extract similar patterns from event logs. My question is at what extent this package can help me and what are the things I need to implement by my own. 

it would be really helpful for me if you quote me any similar implementation if you have any. 


Thanks in advance.

hverbeek

Hi,

I guess you need to read the papers that introduced the heuristics miner. This includes the PhD thesis of Felix Mannhardt (see https://research.tue.nl/en/publications/multi-perspective-process-mining) and Joel Ribeiro (see https://pure.tue.nl/ws/files/3635772/750819.pdf), but also the earlier work of Ton Weijters (see https://research.tue.nl/en/publications/rediscovering-workflow-models-from-event-based-data-using-little-) and the book of WIl van der Aalst.

Kind regards,

Eric.

SRB

Thank you Eric.