Business process mining is becoming an increasingly important field for understanding the
behavioral perspective of any given organization. In a process mining project, process …

Business processes constantly generate, manipulate, and consume data that are managed
by organizational databases. Despite being central to process modeling and execution, the …

Workflow nets and their extensions with data flows, eg, workflow nets with data and colored
workflow nets, can well model the business processes of workflow systems, and their …

In recent years, many new business modes and strategies are constantly emerging in e-
commerce. The new retail has been one of the most successful modes. Different from the …

Process discovery is an important area in the field of process mining, where most discovery
algorithms focus on process control-flow, giving little attention to the data-flow perspective …

Many operations in workflow systems are dependent on database tables. The classical
workflow net and its extensions (eg, worflow net with data) cannot model these operations …

In artifact-centric business process models it is usually assumed that the specification of the
activities requires stating all the effects of the activity execution over the information base (ie …

Abstract Business Process Management (BPM) provides methods and techniques to design,
analyze, and enact business processes. An assumption in BPM has been that data objects …

Tasks and business entities are the major constituents of business processes but they are
not always considered equally important. The activity-centric approach and the artifact …

For a data element concurrently accessed by multiple threads or stored at different locations,
improper data operations will cause its values to be inconsistent. This could damage the …