ALIGNING EVENT DATA WITH A HIERARCHICAL DECLARATIVE PROCESS MODEL

• US 20160210379A1
• Filed: 01/21/2015
• Published: 07/21/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 01/21/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Xie, Guo T., Lakshmanan, Geetika T., Li, Xiang, Liu, Haifeng
• Application Number:
  US14/601,515
• Publication Number:
  US 20160210379A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/20 for the management or administration of healthcare resources or facilities, e.g. managing hospital staff or surgery rooms
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 70/20 relating to practices or guidelines

Abstract

In an approach to aligning an event trace data with a hierarchical declarative process model, a computer processor retrieves an event trace data containing at least one activity and a hierarchical declarative process model, wherein the hierarchical declarative process model includes at least one hierarchical level that represents a phase. The computer processor determines at least one phase for each of the at least one activity of the event trace data. The computer processor creates a phase tree for each of the at least one phase. The computer processors aligns the phase tree for each of the at least one phase with each phase of the hierarchical declarative process model.

Claims

1. A method for aligning an event trace data with a hierarchical declarative process model, the method comprising:

retrieving, by a computer processor, an event trace data containing at least one activity;

retrieving, by a computer processor, a hierarchical declarative process model, wherein the hierarchical declarative process model includes at least one hierarchical level that represents a phase;

determining, by a computer processor, at least one phase for each of the at least one activity of the event trace data;

creating, by a computer processor, a phase tree for each of the at least one phase; and

aligning, by a computer processor, the phase tree for each of the at least one phase with each phase of the hierarchical declarative process model.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining, by a computer processor, based, at least in part, on a timestamp of each of the event trace data, one or more duplicate activities; and

determining, by a computer processor, at least one phase for each of the one or more duplicate activities.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the event trace data includes a timestamp associated with each of the at least one activity.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the event trace data contains a plurality of activities in which a first activity and a second activity are concurrent.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the hierarchical declarative process model is a care pathway model.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein creating a phase tree for each of the at least one phase further comprises:

creating, by a computer processor, a binary tree, wherein each leaf node of the binary tree includes one or more phases associated with each other phase according to a timestamp associated with each of the at least one activity.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising outputting the phase tree aligned with the hierarchical declarative process model.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein determining at least one phase for each of the at least one activity of the event trace data further comprises determining, by a computer processor, a phase rule, wherein the phase rule specifies a relationship between at least a first activity and a second activity of the event trace data.

9. A computer program product for aligning an event trace data with a hierarchical declarative process model, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a computer processor to cause the computer processor to perform a method comprising:

retrieving, by the computer processor, an event trace data containing at least one activity;

retrieving, by the computer processor, a hierarchical declarative process model, wherein the hierarchical declarative process model includes at least one hierarchical level that represents a phase;

determining, by the computer processor, at least one phase for each of the at least one activity of the event trace data;

creating, by the computer processor, a phase tree for each of the at least one phase; and

aligning, by the computer processor, the phase tree for each of the at least one phase with each phase of the hierarchical declarative process model.

10. The computer program product of claim 9, further comprising:

determining, by the computer processor, based, at least in part, on a timestamp of each of the event trace data, one or more duplicate activities; and

determining, by the computer processor, at least one phase for each of the one or more duplicate activities.

11. The computer program product of claim 9, wherein the event trace data includes a timestamp associated with each of the at least one activity.

12. The computer program product of claim 9, wherein the event trace data contains a plurality of activities, in which a first activity and a second activity are concurrent.

13. The computer program product of claim 9, wherein creating a phase tree for each of the at least one phase further comprises:

creating, by the computer processor, a binary tree, wherein each leaf node of the binary tree includes one or more phases associated with each other phase according to a timestamp associated with each of the at least one activity.

14. The computer program product of claim 9, wherein determining at least one phase for each of the at least one activity of the event trace data further comprises determining, by the computer processor, a phase rule, wherein the phase rule specifies a relationship between at least a first activity and a second activity of the event trace data.

15. A computer system for aligning an event trace data with a hierarchical declarative process model, the computer system comprising:

one or more computer processors;

one or more computer readable storage media;

program instructions stored on the one or more computer readable storage media for execution by at least one of the one or more computer processors, the program instructions comprising;

program instructions to retrieve an event trace data containing at least one activity;

program instructions to retrieve a hierarchical declarative process model, wherein the hierarchical declarative process model includes at least one hierarchical level that represents a phase;

program instructions to determine at least one phase for each of the at least one activity of the event trace data;

program instructions to create a phase tree for each of the at least one phase; and

program instructions to align the phase tree for each of the at least one phase with each phase of the hierarchical declarative process model.

16. The computer system of claim 15, further comprising:

program instructions to determine based, at least in part, on a timestamp of each of the event trace data, one or more duplicate activities; and

program instructions to determine at least one phase for each of the one or more duplicate activities.

17. The computer system of claim 15, wherein the event trace data includes a timestamp associated with each of the at least one activity.

18. The computer system of claim 15, wherein the event trace data contains a plurality of activities, in which a first activity and a second activity are concurrent.

19. The computer system of claim 15, wherein the program instructions to create a phase tree for each of the at least one phase further comprise:

program instructions to create a binary tree, wherein each leaf node of the binary tree includes one or more phases associated with each other phase according to a timestamp associated with each of the at least one activity.

20. The computer system of claim 15, wherein the program instructions to determine at least one phase for each of the at least one activity of the event trace data further comprise program instructions to determine a phase rule, wherein the phase rule specifies a relationship between at least a first activity and a second activity of the event trace data.