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Event log cleaning is a data preparation phase that turns event data into event logs to enable or improve the quality of business process analytics methods like process mining, model enrichment, and conformance checking. Event data might have to be collected from different sources and formats, filtered, transformed, and assigned to the corresponding processes and cases.
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The goal of business process analytics projects is to gain insights into the execution of business processes. It can help to know which questions should be answered by the analysis. Some typical questions are what is done (activities), when is it done or how long does it take (time stamps), in which order (relations), and by whom(resources). In contrast to traditional questionnaires, the process participants do not need to be personally asked about their perception of the process. In business process analytics, the event logs containing process...
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Solti, A. (2019). Event Log Cleaning for Business Process Analytics. In: Sakr, S., Zomaya, A.Y. (eds) Encyclopedia of Big Data Technologies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77525-8_87
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