ProM : the process mining toolkit

Wil M. P. van der Aalst, Boudewijn F. van Dongen, CW Christian Günther, A. Rozinat, H. M. W. Verbeek, Ajmm Ton Weijters

BPM (Demos) · 2009 · 288 citations · 10 references

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TL;DR

Process mining, a decade‑old research field, has thrived largely because the ProM tool consolidates most existing techniques into a single plug‑in platform. ProM 6, rebuilt from scratch with a redesigned architecture, eliminates prior limitations, integrates tightly with its GUI, and introduces XESame to convert logs to the native format without programming, driven by real‑world applications.

Abstract

Process mining has been around for a decade, and it has proven to be a very fertile and successful research field. Part of this success can be contributed to the ProM tool, which combines most of the existing process mining techniques as plug-ins in a single tool. ProM6 removes many limitations that existed in the previous versions, in particular with respect to the tight integration between the tool and the GUI. ProM 6 has been developed from scratch and uses a completely redesigned architecture. The changes were driven by many real-life applications and new insights into the design of process analysis software. Furthermore, the introduction of XESame in this toolkit allows for the conversion of logs to the ProM native format without programming.

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