An entropic relevance measure for stochastic conformance checking in process mining

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Polyvyanyy, A; Moffat, A; Garcia-Banuelos, LDate
2020-10-01Source Title
Proceedings - 2020 2nd International Conference on Process Mining, ICPM 2020Publisher
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Polyvyanyy, A., Moffat, A. & Garcia-Banuelos, L. (2020). An entropic relevance measure for stochastic conformance checking in process mining. Proceedings - 2020 2nd International Conference on Process Mining, ICPM 2020, 00, pp.97-104. IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICPM49681.2020.00024.Access Status
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Given an event log as a collection of recorded real-world process traces, process mining aims to automatically construct a process model that is both simple and provides a useful explanation of the traces. Conformance checking techniques are then employed to characterize and quantify commonalities and discrepancies between the log's traces and the candidate models. Recent approaches to conformance checking acknowledge that the elements being compared are inherently stochastic-for example, some traces occur frequently and others infrequently- A nd seek to incorporate this knowledge in their analyses.Here we present an entropic relevance measure for stochastic conformance checking, computed as the average number of bits required to compress each of the log's traces, based on the structure and information about relative likelihoods provided by the model. The measure penalizes traces from the event log not captured by the model and traces described by the model but absent in the event log, thus addressing both precision and recall quality criteria at the same time. We further show that entropic relevance is computable in time linear in the size of the log, and provide evaluation outcomes that demonstrate the feasibility of using the new approach in industrial settings.
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