Cross-organizational collaborative workflow mining from a multi-source log
Cross-organizational collaborative workflow mining from a multi-source log
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从多源日志中挖掘跨组织协作工作流
DOI：
10.1016/j.dss.2012.12.001
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发表时间：
2013-02-01
影响因子：
7.5
通讯作者：
Wang, Huaiqing
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作者：
Zeng, Qingtian;Sun, Sherry X.;Wang, Huaiqing
当今的企业业务流程变得越来越复杂，因为它们通常由地理上分散的合作伙伴或不同的组织执行。设计和建模这样一个跨组织的工作流是一个复杂、耗时的过程，需要设计人员具有丰富的经验。不同的跨组织系统捕获的工作流日志提供了一个非常有价值的信息源，业务流程是如何在现实中执行的，因此可以用来通过流程挖掘来获得工作流模型。本文基于RM_WF_Net的概念，研究了过程挖掘在工作流集成中的应用。RM_WF_Net是一种扩展了资源和消息因素的Petri网。为工作流集成定义了四种协调模式。提出了一种从包含资源分配信息的运行日志中发现不同组织之间的协调模式和不同组织中的工作流模型的过程挖掘方法。在此基础上，提出了一种基于模型挖掘的跨组织工作流模型的过程集成方法。(C)2012 Elsevier B.V.保留所有权利。
Today's enterprise business processes become increasingly complex given that they are often executed by geographically dispersed partners or different organizations. Designing and modeling such a cross-organizational workflow is a complicated, time-consuming process and requires that a designer has extensive experience. Workflow logs captured by different cross-organizational systems provide a very valuable source of information on how business processes are executed in reality and thus can be used to derive workflow models through process mining. In this paper, we investigate the application of process mining for workflow integration based on the concept of RM_WF_Net, a type of Petri net extended with resource and message factors. Four coordination patterns are defined for workflow integration. A process mining approach is presented to discover the coordination patterns between different organizations and the workflow models in different organizations from the running logs containing the information about resource allocation. A process integration approach is then presented to obtain the model for a cross-organizational workflow based on the model mined for each organization and the coordination patterns between different organizations. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.