Abstract. Existing process mining techniques are able to discover process models from event logs where each event is known to have been produced by a given process instance. In this paper we remove this restriction and address the problem of discovering the process model when the event log is provided as an unlabelled stream of events. Using a probabilistic approach, it is possible to estimate the model by means of an iterative Expectaction-Maximization procedure. The same procedure can be used to find the case id in unlabelled event logs. A series of experiments show how the proposed technique performs under varying conditions and in the presence of certain workflow patterns. Results are presented for a running example based on a technical support process.
Ferreira and Gillblad REF proposed a technique to tackle the problem of unlabeled event logs (without a case identifier) by using the Expectation-Maximization procedure.
Discovering Process Models from Unlabelled Event Logs
Business Process Management
Business Process Management
Computer Science