Mining a scientist's process essays dedicated to Wil van der Aalst on the occasion of his 60th birthday Jan Mendling, Sander Leemans, Boudewijn F. van Dongen, Hajo Reijers, editors

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mendling, Jan

Contributor:

Aalst, Wil van der, honouree.

Mendling, Jan, editor.

Leemans, Sander, editor.

Dongen, Boudewijn F. von, editor.

Reijers, Hajo A., editor.

Series:

Lecture notes in computer science ; 1611-3349 16480

Lecture notes in computer science 1611-3349 16480

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Process mining.

Computer science.

Formal methods (Computer science).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cham Springer [2026]

System Details:

text file PDF

Summary:

This Festschrift is dedicated to Wil van der Aalst, a leading pioneer in the disciplines of Business Process Management and Process Mining. Wil van der Aalst received an M.Sc. and a Ph.D. at Eindhoven University of Technology during the 1980s. Among other current roles he is a full professor at RWTH Aachen University, leading the Process and Data Science (PADS) group, and he is Chief Scientist at Celonis. His research interests include process mining, data science, Petri nets, process management, workflow management, process modeling, and process analysis. He has over 1000 journal articles and conference papers, he is among the most highly cited computer scientists in the world, and his ideas have influenced researchers, software developers, and standardization committees. Among his achievements and awards Prof. van der Aalst has received honorary degrees from the Moscow Higher School of Economics, Tsinghua University, and Hasselt University. He is an IFIP Fellow, IEEE Fellow, and ACM Fellow, and an elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities, Academia Europaea, the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts, and the German Academy of Science and Engineering. Throughout his career Prof. van der Aalst has collaborated with hundreds of researchers, students, and practitioners, their successes are reflected in the papers contributed to this volume

Contents:

Reflections about Wil's Career

Are You a Process Guy or a Data Guy

A Brief History and Overview of the Chair of Process and Data Science (PADS)

From Eindhoven to Everywhere: An Academic Spark that Lit Up Classrooms around the World

From Theory to Practice: How Fraunhofer FIT and Its Ecosystem Brought Wil van der Aalst's Process Mining Vision to Market

Wil van der Aalst: A Scientific Guide through Complexity

Business Process Management Concepts From Vision to Community: The Origins and Evolution of the BPM Conference

A theoretical foundation for process science

Leveraging the Process Status in Predictive Process Monitoring Tasks

The Process of Process Science - Generating Actionable Insights from Digital Trace Data

Formal Foundations of Process Change

xData-Centric Support for Dynamic Processes

Unusual Connections of Processes or Development Processes are in Permanent Changes

Contributions of Wil van der Aalst to the Fundamentals of Business Process Management

Business Process Support for Emergency Management

An overview on Predictive and Prescriptive Process Monitoring

From Constraint-Based Process Modeling to Framed Autonomy: A Historical Excursus

Contextualized storage of process models in a process database for data-driven manufacturing

Petri Nets and Formalisms

Petri Net Encoding of Reaction Systems with Unspecified Durations

Petri Nets for the Real World

Variable Arc Nets: One-Dimensional Object-Centric Petri Nets

Is Quantum Mechanics Deterministic or Non-deterministic

Interaction of Petri Net Process Models

On Free Choice and Wil(l): From Petri Net Theory to Process Mining

xiProcess Mining Foundations A Brief Overview of Process Trees

Contests and Challenges in Process Mining

There's no Process Mining without Conformance Checking

Notes of a Process Scientist: Process Discovery

Process-Data Quality Management Lifecycle: Building Strong Data Foundations for Process Mining

What is an Object-Centric Case? An Exploration

Towards Object-Centric and Translucent Process Mining

Bridging the Granularity Gap: From Fine-Grained Events to Coarse-Grained Process Models

Forward-Looking Process Mining: Simulation-Based Approaches, Challenges, and Research Directions

What is the Problem? - Process Mining with a Control Theory Perspective

DisCoveR and Beyond: Exploring Recent Advances in Declarative Process Discovery

Leveraging Meta-Properties of Petri Net Classes to Effciently Enforce Formal Guarantees in Bottom-Up Process Discovery

Automated Conformance Checking Between Process Models and Their Generalized Reference Process Models

Threats to Validity of Process Mining Research

xiiA Semantic Encoding of Object Centric Event Data

Ten Years After Our Framework for Correlating and Clustering Process Behavior: A Reflection on the Journey, Legacy and Outlook

Process Applications Shaping the Digital Transformation in Production: An Information-and Network-Centric Perspective

Process Mining for Heavy Industries: Lessons Learned from Mining Use Cases

Diagnosing LLM Hallucinations in Process Mining Tasks: a Taxonomy and a Benchmark

Uncharted Workflows: Process Mining Perspectives in Health

Object-centric Extraction and Analysis of Scientific Publications

Hybrid Intelligence and Corporate Governance: Division of Labor or Hybrid Ensembles

Privacy and Confidentiality in Process Mining: An Overview of Challenges, Methods, and Future Research Directions

How Students and Robots Can Profit from Process Mining

Process Mining in the Era of Smart Manufacturing: Applications, Limitations, and Opportunities

Notes:

Includes author index

Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed April 6, 2026)

ISBN:

9783032176189

3032176182

OCLC:

1583240547