Process Monitoring Approaches
📌 Two primary approaches for monitoring business processes are using dashboards for statistical information and process mining for performance-related insights based on process models.
📊 Process mining is a discipline focused on extracting interesting information from event logs of executed processes.

Core Process Mining Techniques
🔍 Process discovery automatically generates a process model from an event log to understand what the data reveals about different cases.
⚖️ Conformance checking compares an event log against a normative process model to determine the degree of alignment and identify non-conforming instances.
📊 Trace/Log File Analysis involves splitting event logs (e.g., separating on-time vs. late cases) to identify distinguishing characteristics between fast and slow processes.
⏱️ Performance analysis enriches the process model with statistical data from the event log, showing activity frequencies, path selections, and transition durations between activities.

Event Log Structure
🔑 The minimum requirement for an event log is a table structure containing the activity that occurred (e.g., register request, examine, design).
📅 Each event must have a timestamp recording when it happened, often spanning a defined period (e.g., late Dec 2010 to early Jan 2011).
🔗 Crucially, every observed activity must be associated with a specific case ID (e.g., Case 1, Case 2) to track the sequence within that process instance.

Key Points & Insights
➡️ Process mining leverages event logs to automatically discover, check conformance against, and analyze the performance of business processes.
➡️ The structure of an event log requires at least an activity name, a timestamp, and a case ID for each recorded event.
➡️ Conformance checking is vital for assessing how closely actual process execution aligns with defined normative models.

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