Object-Centric Process Mining: Moving from 2D to 3D Analytics [Keynote Wil vd Aalst at IEEE CiSt'23]

Keynote by Wil van der Aalst for the 7th IEEE Conference on Information Science and Technology will be held within the IEEE CiSt’2023 international congress the week of 16th - 22nd December 2023, Agadir - Essaouira, Morocco.

Abstract:
Companies struggle with the complexity of their processes, and data are often scattered over many tables in different systems. In the past, automation initiatives often failed because complexity was underestimated, and it is impossible to simply replace systems based on high-level process diagrams. The same complexity makes it difficult to apply Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Yet, organizations urgently need to address their execution gaps: What do organizations expect, and what are they realistically capable of today? These gaps and their root causes can be made visible using process mining. Process Mining is currently the most concrete technology to support the vision embodied by terms such as Hyperautomation and Digital Twin of an Organization (DTO). Process mining helps to focus automation, ML, and AI initiatives. The keynote demonstrates the advantages of Object-Centric Process Mining (OOPM). By considering multiple object types at the same time, it is possible to get a three-dimensional view of the processes in an organization.

Short Bio:

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[APoIIy]

I used process mining (SAP Signavio process intelligence) at our company and this was exactly the issue I was facing. I analyzed the order-to-cash process, but obviously it's performance is impacted by other processes and it's processing objects (procurement, manufacturing, inventory, logistics). I tired to cramp in everything and tried to relate it to one sales order item case_id. I had to do massive aggregation operations and pseudo nested tables structures and add "process object" as event attributes to my event log. When I filtered out one object it was somehow understandable but the spaghetti colore was crazy. It was a horrible experience and I really thought I'm a total idiot for doing it 😂. I had a real A-ha moment in this video. Thanks for the good presentation.