Ph.D. position: Business Process Mining

The Leuven Institute for Research on Information Systems (LIRIS) performs research on the business aspects of Information and on the Information aspects of Business.

Research Assistant (Ph.D. position) for the project "Business Process Mining: new techniques and evaluation metrics".
(with Jan Vanthienen/Bart Baesens)

Abstract: A new and promising way of acquiring insights into business processes is the analysis of the event logs of information and/or enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, hereby verifying process compliance (expected behavior versus portrayed behavior). Building upon previous research describing techniques that represent process mining as a first-order classification problem on event logs supplemented with artificial negative events, it is examined how rule induction techniques can be applied to various process mining tasks.

The research consists of a process mining approach in which rules and generated negative events have a prominent place. The research also tries to improve existing algorithms and establish a general framework for the evaluation of induced process models with negative events. The theoretical contributions will be empirically validated for applications in audit compliance, risk management and healthcare, and also for semi-structured processes.

• The Leuven Institute for Research on Information Systems (LIRIS) has an opening for a full-time research assistant.
• You will conduct research and work towards a Ph.D. in Applied Economics on the topic "Business Process Mining: new techniques and evaluation metrics". This research project is performed in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Jan Vanthienen and Prof. Dr. Bart Baesens.
• The candidate can be asked to give guidance to students (e.g., by supervising their master's thesis) and to supervise exams.
• You will find a dynamic and pleasant working environment, in a group wich conducts research at the highest