An Agent-Based Process Mining Architecture for Emergent Behavior Analysis

Rob H. Bemthuis, Martijn Koot, Martijn R.K. Mes, Faiza A. Bukhsh, Maria-Eugenia Iacob, Nirvana Meratnia

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Abstract

Information systems leave a traceable digital footprint whenever an action is executed. Business process modelers capture these digital traces to understand the behavior of a system, and to extract actual run-time models of those business processes. Despite the omnipresence of such traces, most organizations face substantial differences between the process specifications and the actual run-time behavior. Analyzing and implementing the results of systems that model business processes tend, however, to be difficult due to the inherent complexity of the models. Moreover, the observed reality in the form of lower-level real-time events, as recorded in event logs, is seldom solely explainable by higher-level process models. In this paper, we propose an architecture to model system-wide behavior by combining process mining with a multi-agent system. Digital traces, in the form of event logs, are used to iteratively mine process models from which agents can learn. The approach is initially applied to a case study of a simplified job-shop factory in which automated guided vehicles (AGVs) carry out transportation tasks. Numerical experiments show that the workflow of a process mining model can be used to enhance the agent-based system, particularly, in analyzing bottlenecks and improving decision-making.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2019 IEEE 23rd International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Workshop (EDOCW)
Place of PublicationPiscataway, NJ
PublisherIEEE
Pages54-64
Number of pages11
ISBN (Electronic)978-1-7281-4598-3
ISBN (Print)978-1-7281-4599-0
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 21 Nov 2019
Event23rd IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference, EDOCW 2019: the Enterprise Computing conference - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France
Duration: 28 Oct 201931 Oct 2019
Conference number: 23

Publication series

NameProceedings IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Workshop (EDOCW)
PublisherIEEE
Volume23
ISSN (Print)2325-6583
ISSN (Electronic)2325-6605

Conference

Conference23rd IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference, EDOCW 2019
Abbreviated titleIEEE EDOC 2019
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityParis
Period28/10/1931/10/19

Keywords

  • Multi-agent system
  • Process mining
  • Emergent behavior
  • Enterprise architecture
  • Supply chain logistics
  • Job-shop
  • Internet of Things (IoT)

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