Towards an Ontology for Process Monitoring and Mining

Business Process Analysis (BPA) aims at monitoring, diag- nosing, simulating and mining enacted processes in order to support the analysis and enhancement of process models. An eective BPA solution must provide the means for analysing existing e-businesses at three levels of abstraction: the Business Level, the Process Level and the IT Level. BPA requires semantic information that spans these layers of abstrac- tion and which should be easily retrieved from audit trails. To cater for this, we describe the Process Mining Ontology and the Events Ontology which aim to support the analysis of enacted processes at dierent levels of abstraction spanning from fine grain technical details to coarse grain aspects at the Business Level.

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