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Object-Centric Replay-Based Conformance Checking: Unveiling Desire Lines and Local Deviations
Author(s) -
Хулио С Карраскель,
Халил Мешерауи
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
modelirovanie i analiz informacionnyh sistem
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2313-5417
pISSN - 1818-1015
DOI - 10.18255/1818-1015-2021-2-146-168
Subject(s) - petri net , computer science , conformance checking , event (particle physics) , object (grammar) , security token , workflow , process (computing) , field (mathematics) , class (philosophy) , model checking , programming language , artificial intelligence , work in process , business process , database , computer security , physics , mathematics , business process modeling , marketing , quantum mechanics , pure mathematics , business
Conformance checking methods diagnose to which extent a real system, whose behavior is recorded in an event log, complies with its specification model, e.g., a Petri net. Nonetheless, the majority of these methods focus on checking isolated process instances, neglecting interaction between instances in a system. Addressing this limitation, a series of object-centric approaches have been proposed in the field of process mining. These approaches are based on the holistic analysis of the multiple process instances interacting in a system, where each instance is centered on the handling of an object. Inspired by the object-centric paradigm, this paper presents a replay-based conformance checking method which uses a class of colored Petri nets (CPNs) -- a Petri net extension where tokens in the model carry values of some types (colors). Particularly, we consider conservative workflow CPNs which allow to describe the expected behavior of a system whose components are centered on the end-to-end processing of distinguishable objects. For describing a system’s real behavior, we consider event logs whose events have sets of objects involved in the execution of activities. For replay, we consider a jump strategy where tokens absent from input places of a transition to fire move from their current place of the model to the requested places. Token jumps allow to identify desire lines, i.e., object paths unforeseen in the specification. Also, we introduce local diagnostics based on the proportion of jumps in specific model components. The metrics allow to inform the severity of deviations in precise system parts. Finally, we report experiments supported by a prototype of our method. To show the practical value of our method, we employ a case study on trading systems, where orders from users are matched to trade.

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