The WHY in Business Processes: Discovery of Causal Execution Dependencies

Understand

Unraveling the causal relationships among the execution of process activities is a crucial element in predicting the consequences of process interventions and making informed decisions regarding process improvements.

• Process discovery algorithms exploit time precedence as their main source of model derivation.
• Hence, a causal view can supplement process discovery, being a new perspective in which relations reflect genuine cause-effect dependencies among the tasks.
• This calls for faithful new techniques to discover the causal execution dependencies among the tasks in the process.