Business Process Models in the Context of Predictive Process Monitoring

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https://doi.org/10.22456/2175-2745.106828

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Business Process Management, Predicitve Process Monitoring, Business Process Model Complexity

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Predictive process monitoring is a subject of growing interest in academic research. As a result, an increased number of papers on this topic have been published. Due to the high complexity in this research area a wide range of different experimental setups and methods have been applied which makes it very difficult to reliably compare research results. This paper's objective is to investigate how business process models and their characteristics are used during experimental setups and how they can contribute to academic research. First, a literature review is conducted to analyze and discuss the awareness of business process models in experimental setups. Secondly, the paper discusses identified research problems and proposes the concept of a web-based business process model metric suite and the idea of ranked metrics. Through a metric suite researchers and practitioners can automatically evaluate business process model characteristics in their future work. Further, a contextualization of metrics by introducing a ranking of characteristics can potentially indicate how the outcome of experimental setups will be. Hence, the paper's work demonstrates the importance of business process models and their characteristics in the context of predictive process monitoring and proposes the concept of a tool approach and ranking to reliably evaluate business process models characteristics.

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2021-01-19

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Spree, F. (2021). Business Process Models in the Context of Predictive Process Monitoring. Revista De Informática Teórica E Aplicada, 28(1), 39–46. https://doi.org/10.22456/2175-2745.106828

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Special Issue on Business Process Management