Business process instance remaining execution time prediction by integrating memory network and transition system
In the task of remaining time prediction of business process instances,only the prefixes of process instances are encoded in most methods.The impact of events that have occurred on prediction results can only be considered,and the impact of the future events is ignored in such prediction methods.Aiming at this deficiency,a prediction framework for the remaining time of process instances was proposed,which integrated memory network and transition system.The suffixes of process instances were mined through transition system in this framework,then the prefixes and suffixes of the process were encoded based on the bidirectional gate recurrent unit.The memory network and attention mechanism were used to learn the weights of different events in process instances,so as to better model process instances.In addition,to fully consider the correlation and quantity difference between process instance prefixes of different lengths,the transfer-learning mechanism was introduced to construct multiple predic-tion models for different track lengths to improve the pertinence of the model.Finally,experiments were conducted on three public real-world datasets,and the results showed that the proposed method had obvious advantages over a variety of existing methods.
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