Mining Unconnected Patterns in Workflows

This paper investigates the problem of mining unconnected patterns in workflows and presents for its solution two algorithms, both adapting the Apriori approach to the graphical structure of workflows. The first one is a straightforward extension of the level-wise style of Apriori whereas the second one introduces sophisticated graphical analysis of the frequencies of workflow instances. The experiments show that graphical analysis improves the performance of pattern mining by dramatically pruning the search space of candidate patterns