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From event logs to goals: a systematic literature review of goal-oriented process mining

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Process mining helps infer valuable insights about business processes using event logs, whereas goal modeling focuses on the representation and analysis of competing goals of stakeholders and systems. Although there are clear benefits in mining the goals of existing processes, goal-oriented approaches that consider logs during model construction are still rare. Process mining techniques, when generalizing large instance-level data into process models, can be considered as a data-driven complement to use case/scenario elicitation. Requirements engineers can exploit process mining techniques to find new system or process requirements in order to align current practices and desired ones. This paper provides a systemic literature review, based on 24 papers rigorously selected from four popular search engines in 2018, to assess the state of goal-oriented process mining. Through two research questions, the review highlights that the use of process mining in association with goals does not yet have a coherent line of research, whereas intention mining (where goal models are mined) shows a meaningful trace of research. Research about performance indicators measuring goals associated with process mining is also sparse. Although the number of publications in process mining and goal modeling is trending up, goal mining and goal-oriented process mining remain modest research areas. Yet, synergetic effects achievable by combining goals and process mining can potentially augment the precision, rationality and interpretability of mined models and eventually improve opportunities to satisfy system stakeholders.

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This work is funded by the Discovery grant program of the National Science and Engineering Council of Canada (NSERC). M. Ghasemi is further sponsored by the Ontario Graduate Scholarship program and the NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship program. The authors are indebted to the anonymous reviewers for their feedback and suggestions for improvement.

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Ghasemi, M., Amyot, D. From event logs to goals: a systematic literature review of goal-oriented process mining. Requirements Eng 25, 67–93 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00766-018-00308-3

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