Process Mining Approach to Formal Business Process Modelling and Verification: A Case Study

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/JM2-03-2020-0077" target="_blank" >10.1108/JM2-03-2020-0077</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Process Mining Approach to Formal Business Process Modelling and Verification: A Case Study

Original language description

Purpose: The need for assuring correctness of business processes in enterprises is widely recognised in terms of business process re-engineering and improvement. Formal methods are a promising approach to this issue. The challenge in business process verification is to create a formal model that is well-aligned to the reality. Process mining is a well-known technique to discover a model of a process based on facts. However, no studies exist that apply it to formal verification. This study aims to propose a methodology for formal business process verification by means of process mining, and attempts to clarify the challenges and necessary technologies in this approach using a case study. Design/methodology/approach: A trading company simulation model is used as a case study. A workflow model is discovered from an event log produced by a simulation tool and manually complemented to a formal model. Correctness requirements of both domain-dependent and domain-independent types of the model are checked by means of model-checking. Findings: For business process verification with both domain-dependent and domain-independent correctness requirements, more advanced process mining techniques that discover data-related aspects of processes are desirable. The choice of a formal modelling language is also crucial. It depends on the correctness requirements and the characteristics of the business process. Originality/value: Formal verification of business processes starting with creating its formal model is quite new. Furthermore, domain-dependent and domain-independent correctness properties are considered in the same framework, which is also new. This study revealed necessary technologies for this approach with process mining.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50204 - Business and management

Project

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Continuities

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Modelling in Management

ISSN

1746-5664

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

in-print

Issue of the periodical within the volume

in-print

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

21

Pages from-to

1-21

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85089977210