C-3PA: Streaming Conformance, Confidence and Completeness in Prefix-Alignments

The aim of streaming conformance checking is to find dis crepancies between process executions on streaming data and the refer ence process model. The state-of-the-art output from streaming confor mance checking is a prefix-alignment. However, current techniques that output a prefix-alignment are un...

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Main Author: Raun, Kristo (author)
Other Authors: Nielsen, Max (author), Burattin, Andrea (author), Awad, Ahmed (author)
Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://bspace.buid.ac.ae/handle/1234/2943
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-34560-9_26
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34560-9_26
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Summary:The aim of streaming conformance checking is to find dis crepancies between process executions on streaming data and the refer ence process model. The state-of-the-art output from streaming confor mance checking is a prefix-alignment. However, current techniques that output a prefix-alignment are unable to handle warm-starting scenarios. Further, no indication is given of how close the trace is to termination—a highly relevant measure in a streaming setting. This paper introduces a novel approximate streaming conformance checking algorithm that enriches prefix-alignments with confidence and completeness measures. Empirical tests on synthetic and real-life datasets demonstrate that the new method outputs prefix-alignments that have a cost that is highly correlated with the output from the state of-the-art optimal prefix-alignments. Furthermore, the method is able to handle warm-starting scenarios and indicate the confidence level of the prefix-alignment. A stress test shows that the method is well-suited for fast-paced event streams.