Case Analytics Workbench: Platform for Hybrid Process Model Creation and Evolution

Hybrid process models are considered an attractive approach for modeling knowledge-intensive processes. A hybrid process model combines both imperative and declarative modeling, which can handle both the structured and the flexible parts of a business process. However, it is difficult and time-consuming to create and refine a hybrid process model due to its structure complexity and case variability. This paper introduces the Case Analytics Workbench, an end-to-end system to accelerate hybrid process model creation and evolution by combining declarative and imperative process mining, event log clustering and human interaction in a cloud environment. We validated the effectiveness and applicability of our system by performing two case studies from insurance and health care industry respectively.

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