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Analysis of Multi-Agent Interactions with Process Mining Techniques

Lawrence Cabac , Nicolas Knaak, Daniel Moldt, and Heiko Rölke.
Analysis of multi-agent interactions with process mining techniques.
In Multiagent System Technologies. 4th German Conference, MATES 2006 Erfurt, Germany. Proceedings, volume 4196 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 12-23, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 2006. Springer-Verlag.

Kurzfassung: Process mining and multi-agent models are powerful techniques for the analysis of processes and organizations. However, the integration of both fields has seldom been considered due to the lack of common conceptual background. We propose to close this gap by using Petri nets as an operational semantics and consider process mining a useful addition to monitor and debug multi-agent systems in the development phase. Mining results can be represented in the formalized form of Petri nets that allows to validate or verify the actual behavior.
On our way to mining complex interactions within (simulated) organizations, we present a plug-in extension of our Petri nets-based agent platform Mulan/Capa for recording interaction logs. Using process mining, the logs can be mapped by some intermediate steps to agent protocols e.g. represented as AgentUML interaction protocol diagrams. These diagrams are a descriptive representation form that combines organizational and control flow information. Furthermore, they can be mapped to executable Petri nets, thus allowing to feed mining results back into the design phase.


BibTeX-Eintrag



@InProceedings{Cabac+06c,
  author = 	 {Cabac, Lawrence and Knaak, Nicolas and Moldt, Daniel and R{\"o}lke, Heiko},
  title = 	 {Analysis of Multi-Agent Interactions with Process Mining Techniques},
  booktitle =	 {Multiagent System Technologies.
		  4th German Conference, MATES 2006 Erfurt, Germany.
		  Proceedings},
  pages = 	 {12--23},
  series =	 LNCS,
  volume =	 {4196},
  year =	 2006,
  doi =		 {10.1007/11872283_2},
  ISBN = 	 {978-3-540-45376-5},
  publisher =	 Springer,
  address =	 Springer.addr,
  keywords = 	 {agent interactions, conversations, high-level Petri nets,
		  interaction mining, mining, multi-agent systems, Mulan,
		  modeling, nets-within-nets, process mining, reference nets,
		  Renew, simulation},
  abstract =	 {Process mining and multi-agent models are powerful
		  techniques for the analysis of processes and
		  organizations. However, the integration of both fields
		  has seldom been considered due to the lack of common
		  conceptual background. We propose to close this gap by
		  using Petri nets as an operational semantics and consider
		  process mining a useful addition to monitor and debug
		  multi-agent systems in the development phase. Mining
		  results can be represented in the formalized form of
		  Petri nets that allows to validate or verify the actual
		  behavior.
                  \par
		  On our way to mining complex interactions within
		  (simulated) organizations, we present a plug-in extension
		  of our Petri nets-based agent platform Mulan/Capa for
		  recording interaction logs. Using process mining, the
		  logs can be mapped by some intermediate steps to agent
		  protocols e.g. represented as AgentUML interaction
		  protocol diagrams. These diagrams are a descriptive
		  representation form that combines organizational and
		  control flow information. Furthermore, they can be mapped
		  to executable Petri nets, thus allowing to feed mining
		  results back into the design phase.},
  annote =       {filename: mining.tex}
}


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