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Analyzing a TCP/IP-Protocol with Process Mining Techniques

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In many legacy software systems the communication between client and server is based on proprietary Ethernet protocols. We consider the case that the implementation and specification of such a protocol is unknown and try to reconstruct the rules of the protocol by observation of the network communication. To this end, we translate TCP/IP-logs to appropriate event logs and apply Petri net based process mining techniques. The results of this contribution are a systematic approach to mine client/server protocols, an according tool chain involving existing tools and new tools, and an evaluation of this approach, using a concrete example from practice.

Based on the thesis [14] of the first author, supervised by the second author.

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    Our study is based on ProM 6.2.

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  1. rubecon information technologies GmbH, Düsseldorf, Germany

    Christian Wakup

  2. Fakultät für Mathematik und Informatik, FernUniversität in Hagen, Hagen, Germany

    Jörg Desel

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  1. IBM Research – Haifa, Haifa, Israel

    Fabiana Fournier

  2. Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria

    Jan Mendling

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Wakup, C., Desel, J. (2015). Analyzing a TCP/IP-Protocol with Process Mining Techniques. In: Fournier, F., Mendling, J. (eds) Business Process Management Workshops. BPM 2014. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 202. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15895-2_30

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