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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2013
Filed:
May. 03, 2010
Francisco Phelan Curbera, Hawthorne, NY (US);
Paul T. Keyser, Hawthorne, NY (US);
Rania Khalaf, Cambridge, MA (US);
Geetika Tewari Lakshmanan, Cambridge, MA (US);
Francisco Phelan Curbera, Hawthorne, NY (US);
Paul T. Keyser, Hawthorne, NY (US);
Rania Khalaf, Cambridge, MA (US);
Geetika Tewari Lakshmanan, Cambridge, MA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for modeling a process includes collecting data pertaining to executed process steps from one or more activity log files. The collected data is parsed to determine a set of process steps that have been performed. An incidence value representing how many times each performed process step follows each of the other performed process steps is determined. A graph representing a model of the executed process by representing each process step that has been performed as a node of the graph and each transition between process steps within each process thread as an edge on the graph is generated. The edges connecting the pairs of nodes are assigned numbers that depend upon the incidence value corresponding to how many times the process step represented by a first node of the pair is followed by the process step represented by a second node of the pair.