process mining

English

Noun

process mining (uncountable)

1. A family of techniques relating the fields of data science and process management to support the analysis of operational processes based on event logs.

   Coordinate term: data mining

   • 2015, Ronny S. Mans, Wil M. P. van der Aalst, Rob J. B. Vanwersch, Process Mining in Healthcare […] , Springer, →ISBN, page 5:

     In fact, whenever possible, process mining techniques use extra information such as the resource (i.e., person or device) executing or initiating the activity, the timestamp of the event, or data elements recorded with the event (e.g., the age of a patient).

Further reading

• process mining on Wikipedia.Wikipedia