The paper examines how event logs used in process mining can fail to reveal concurrent versus sequential activities, using a hospital example where blood tests and imaging may occur simultaneously or in alternating order. It demonstrates that standard stochastic language approaches only expose the assumptions of their discovery algorithms, often misrepresenting concurrency. The authors argue that the key to distinguishing concurrent behavior lies in the choice of recorded data—such as precise start and end times or object‑centric ordering—rather than simply increasing sample size.
By Antony R. Lee, Peter Ti\v{n}o, Iain B. Styles
arXiv:2510. 04033v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Modern computer systems rely on syslog, a universal protocol that records critical events across heterogeneous infrastructure.
By Ayush Noori, Aaron E. Boussina, Hai Ho Bich, James Anibal, Julia Maslinski, Manuel Burger, Martin Faltys, Adam Rodman, Alan Karthikesalingam, Alessandro Blasimme, Annelia Itwaru, Ben Kaplan, Bilal A. Mateen, Christopher A. Longhurst, Daniel Yang, Dave deBronkart, Effy Vayena, Fedor Sergeev, Gauden Galea, Ha Thi Hai Duong, Harold F. Wolf III, Jacob Waxman, Joerg C. Schefold, Joshua C. Mandel, Juliana Rotich, Kenneth D. Mandl, Lily Poursoltan, Maryam Mustafa, Melissa Miles, Nigam H. Shah, Noa Dagan, Pavan Bodanki, Peter Lee, Philipp Koralus, Prathamesh Parchure, Prem Timsina, Ran D. Balicer, Robert Korom, Scott Mahoney, Seth Hain, Tien Yin Wong, Trevor Mundel, Vivek Natarajan, Ankit Sakhuja, Benjamin Glicksberg, C. Louise Thwaites, Gunnar R\"atsch, Karandeep Singh, David A. Clifton, Isaac S. Kohane, Marinka Zitnik
arXiv:2609.07984v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Process mining has long turned event logs into process knowledge: discovered models, conformance evidence, bottleneck diagnoses, and runtime prediction...
By Yiyuan Yang, Zheshun Wu, Yong Chu, Zhenghua Chen, Zenglin Xu, Qingsong Wen