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This paper addresses the problem of explaining behavioral differences between two business process event logs. The paper presents a method that, given two event logs, returns a set of statements in natural language capturing behavior that is present or frequent in one log, while absent or infrequent in the other. This log delta analysis method allows users to diagnose differences between normal and deviant executions of a process or between two versions or variants of a process. The method relies on a novel approach to losslessly encode an event log as an event structure, combined with a frequency-enhanced technique for differencing pairs of event structures. A validation of the proposed method shows that it accurately diagnoses typical change patterns and can explain differences between normal and deviant cases in a real-life log, more compactly and precisely than previously proposed methods.
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van Beest, N.R.T.P., Dumas, M., García-Bañuelos, L., La Rosa, M. (2015). Log Delta Analysis: Interpretable Differencing of Business Process Event Logs. In: Motahari-Nezhad, H., Recker, J., Weidlich, M. (eds) Business Process Management. BPM 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9253. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23063-4_26
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