Early Prediction of Complex Business Processes Using Association Rule Based Mining

Naveed Khan, Zeeshan Tariq, Aftab Ali, Sally I McClean, Paul Taylor, Detlef Nauck

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Abstract

Complex business processes are challenging and hard to analyse. The objective here is to enhance delivery of processes in terms of improving quality of service and customer satisfaction. Therefore, an automated process prediction system is desirable to monitor and evaluate complex business processes and forecast process outcome during execution time. The analysis of such processes would help domain experts to make in-time decisions to improve the process. The in-time response greatly effects the quality of service and customer satisfaction. Therefore, in this paper, the early process prediction framework using Classification Based on Association rules (CBA) has been proposed to predict outcomes for such incomplete processes. The essential part of the proposed system is to extract association rules from the process data up to a certain point in time (i.e. the cut-off time) at which the prediction needs to be made; in an live process this would usually be the current time. The CBA algorithm generates rules with user specified support and confidence which are then utilised for early process prediction. The experimental results based on real business process data are presented for on-time and delayed processes. The proposed early process prediction system is evaluated using different metrics such as accuracy, precision, recall and the F-measure. Moreover, the proposed system is also compared with our prior published work in terms of accuracy, recall and F-measure. The analysis shows that the performance of proposed system outperforms schemes in the literature.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationInternational Conference on Recent Trends in Image Processing and Pattern Recognition
EditorsKC Santosh, Ravindra Hegadi, Umapada Pal
PublisherSpringer
Pages183-194
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)9783031070044
DOIs
Publication statusPublished online - 22 May 2022

Publication series

NameCommunications in Computer and Information Science
Volume1576 CCIS
ISSN (Print)1865-0929
ISSN (Electronic)1865-0937

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This research is supported by BTIIC (The BT Ireland Innovation Centre) project, funded by BT and Invest Northern Ireland.

Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

Keywords

  • Association rules
  • Complex business processes
  • Event log
  • Process prediction

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