Slides Supporting the Process Mining Book

The book Process Mining: Discovery, Conformance and Enhancement of Business Processes by Wil van der Aalst serves as a reference for process mining. Enclosed is a set of presentations to support the book. These slides should not be used without referring to the book and www.processmining.org.

• About the book
• Chapter 1 - Introduction
• Chapter 2 - Process Modeling and Analysis
• Chapter 3 - Data Mining
• Chapter 4 - Getting the Data
• Chapter 5 - Process Discovery: An Introduction
• Chapter 6 - Advanced Process Discovery Techniques
• Chapter 7 - Conformance Checking
• Chapter 8 - Mining Additional Perspectives
• Chapter 9 - Operational Support
• Chapter 10 - Tool Support
• Chapter 11 - Analyzing Lasagna Processes
• Chapter 12 - Analyzing Spaghetti Processes
• Chapter 13 - Cartography and Navigation
• Chapter 14 - Epilogue

A collection of event logs and process models illustrating the various concepts can be found in a zip file. An explanation of these artifacts and their relation to the book can be found here. Note that it is assumed that the reader has installed ProM 6 (and/or ProM 5.2).