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A process-mining-based scenarios generation method for SOA application development

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Business process models which are usually constructed by business designers from experience and analysis are the main guidelines for services composition in the service-oriented architecture (SOA) applications development. However, due to the complexity of business models, it is a challenging task for business process designers to optimize the process models dynamically in accordance with changes in business environments. In this paper, a process-mining-based method is proposed to support business process designers to monitor efficiency or capture the changes of a business process. Firstly, we define a scenario model to depict business elements and their relationships which are critical to business process design. Based on the proposed scenario model, process mining algorithms, including control flow mining, roles mining and data flow mining are carried out in a certain sequence synthetically to extract business scenarios from event logs recorded by SOA application systems. Finally, we implement a prototype using a logistic scenario to illustrate the feasibility of our method in SOA applications development.

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This research is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Nos. 61373030, 71171132.

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  1. School of Software, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

    Lihong Jiang, Jianyi Wang, Hongming Cai & Chengxi Huang

  2. Faculty of Engineering and Computing, Coventry University, Coventry, UK

    Nazaraf Shah & Ray Farmer

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Jiang, L., Wang, J., Shah, N. et al. A process-mining-based scenarios generation method for SOA application development. SOCA 10, 303–315 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11761-015-0188-8

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