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This contribution suggests a novel approach for a systematic and automatic generation of process models from example runs. The language used for process models is place/transition Petri nets, the language used for example runs is labelled partial orders. The approach adopts techniques from Petri net synthesis and from process mining. In addition to a formal treatment of the approach, a case study is presented and implementation issues are discussed.
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Bergenthum, R., Desel, J., Mauser, S., Lorenz, R. (2009). Construction of Process Models from Example Runs. In: Jensen, K., van der Aalst, W.M.P. (eds) Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency II. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5460. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00899-3_14
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