An Approach for Discovering Inter-organizational Collaborative Business Processes in BPMN 2.0

Abstract

Inter-organizational collaborative business processes involve at least two participants from different organizations who interact with each other. Discovering and analyzing this kind of process adds several challenges to process mining initiatives, mainly due to traces spread across organizations with heterogeneous infrastructures, technologies, and data models. This paper presents a process mining approach for discovering inter-organizational collaborative business processes, which takes as input an extended XES event log with information on participants and messages exchanged to discover a BPMN 2.0 collaboration process model and corresponding choreography. We evaluated our approach using collaborative business process data from selected related work, discussing and comparing our results within different scenarios.