Patent ID: 8108234
Filing Date: 2012-01-31
Classification: G06F,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method of deriving business processes, the method comprising: retrieving a plurality of event logs from a plurality of different systems executing a plurality of different business processes, wherein a first business process generates first event logs and a second business process generates second event logs; receiving domain rules from a domain expert; accessing the received domain rules; associating, on a computer system, the plurality of event logs with independent business processes using a plurality of the domain rules, wherein said first business process and said second business process corresponding to said first event logs and said second event logs, respectively, are common to at least one of said independent business processes, and wherein the first event lops and second event lops are clustered as subprocesses, and wherein independent business processes have no information exchange between them; deriving the independent business processes based on said associating; and outputting XML specifications for said independent business processes based on said deriving.