An incremental process mining approach to extract knowledge from legacy systems

Proceedings - IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Workshop, EDOC

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 79-88

  Kalsing, André Cristiano ^a   Do Nascimento, Gleison Samuel ^a   Iochpe, Cirano ^a   Thom, Lucinéia Heloisa ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Business rules; Legacy systems; Process mining; Workflow

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS ANALYSTS; BUSINESS KNOWLEDGE; BUSINESS PROCESS; BUSINESS RULES; CONCURRENT ACTIVITIES; EXTRACTION OF INFORMATION; EXTRACTION PROCEDURE; INCREMENTAL ANALYSIS; INCREMENTAL PROCESS; INFORMATION EXTRACTION; LEGACY CODE; NEW APPROACHES; PROCESS MINING; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTS; SOURCE CODES; STATIC SOURCES; STATIC-ANALYSIS ALGORITHM; WORKFLOW;

DATA MINING; MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MANAGEMENT SCIENCE; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE; STATIC ANALYSIS;

LEGACY SYSTEMS;

EID: 79951904046     PISSN: 15417719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EDOC.2010.13     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (25)

1. E. Putrycz, and A.W. Kark, "Recovering Business Rules from Legacy Source Code for System Modernization," Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 4824, pp. 107-118, Springer, 2007.
2. C. C. Chiang, "Extracting business rules from legacy systems into reusable components," IEEE/SMC International Conference on System of Systems Engineering, pp. 6, 2006.
3. H. M. Sneed, and K. Erdos, "Extracting business rules from source code," Proceeding of the Fourth IEEE Workshop on Program Comprehension, pp. 240-247, 1996.
4. C. Wang, Y. Zhou, and J. Chen, "Extracting Prime Business Rules from Large Legacy System," International Conference on Computer Science and Soft. Engineering, vol 2, pp. 19-23, 2008.
5. C. C. Chiang, and C. Bayrak, "Legacy Software Modernization," IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, SMC'06, vol. 2, pp. 1304-1309, 2006. (Pubitemid 47297245)
6. H. Huang, W. T. Tsai, S. Bhattacharya, X. P. Chen, Y, Wang, and J. Sun, "Business rule extraction from legacy code," COMPSAC '96., pp. 162-167, 1996.
7. X. Wang, J. Sun, X. Yang, Z. He, and S. Maddineni, "Business rules extraction from large legacy systems," Eighth Euromicro Working Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering, pp. 249-258, 2004.
8. A. B. Earls, "A Method for the Manual Extraction of Business logics from Legacy Source Code," BT Technology Journal, vol 20, no. 4, pp. 127-145, 2002.
9. P. KRILL, "The future's bright .. the future's Cobol," accessed 30 June 2009, web page: http://www.computerworlduk.com/technology/applications/ enterprise/indepth/index.cfm?articleid=95, 2006
10. G. S. Nascimento, C. Iochpe, L. H. Thom, and M. Reichert, "A Method for Rewriting Legacy Systems using Business Process Management Technology," ICEIS, vol 3, pp. 57-62, 2009.
11. J. R. Cordy, "TXL - A Language for Programming Language Tools and Applications," Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS), vol. 110, pp.3-31, Elsevier Science, 2004. (Pubitemid 41081878)
12. OMG, "Business Process Management Notation". Version 1.2, Accessed February 2009. web page: 〈http://www.omg.org/docs/formal/09-01-03. pdf〉.
13. Y. Zou, T. C. Lau, K. Kontogiannis, T. Tong, and R. McKegney, "Model-driven business process recovery," 11th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, pp 224- 233, 2004. (Pubitemid 40610339)
14. Y. Zou, M. and Hung, "An Approach for Extracting Workflows from E-Commerce Applications," 14th IEEE ICPC 2006, pp. 127- 136, 2006. (Pubitemid 44889010)
15. K. Liu, A. Alderson, and Z. Qureshi, "Requirements recovery from legacy systems by analysing and modelling behaviour," IEEE International Conference on Soft. Maintenance, pp. 3-12, 1999. (Pubitemid 30547701)
16. J. Carletta, "Assessing agreement on classification tasks: the kappa statistic," Computational Linguistics, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 249-254, 1996.
17. A. Weijters, A., W.M. P. van der Aalst, and A. K. Medeiros, "Process Mining with the HeuristicsMiner Algorithm," Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Tech. Rep. WP, vol. 166, 2006.
18. M. Weiden, L. Hermans, G. Schreiber, and S. van der Zee, "Classification and Representation of Business Rules," Accessed Setember 2009, web page: http://www.omg.org/docs/ad/02-12-18.pdf, 2002.
19. J. E. Cook, and A. L. Wolf, "Discovering Models of Software Processes from Event-Based Data," ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 215-249, 1998. (Pubitemid 128658170)
20. B. F. van Dongen, W. M. P. van der Aalst. "A Meta Model for Process Mining Data," Proceedings of the CAiSE, vol. 5. pp. 309- 320, 2005.
21. J. R. Landis, G. G. Koch, "The measurement of observer agreement for categorical data," International Biometric Society, vol. 33. pp. 159-174, 1977. (Pubitemid 8054849)
22. M. Weske, "Business Process Management: Concepts, Languages, Architectures," Springer, Berlin, 2007.
23. J. Garfunkel, "The Cobol 85 Example Book," N.Y.: Wiley, 1987.
24. A. Rozinat, W. M. P. van der Aalst, "Decision Mining in Business Process," BPM Center Report BPM-06-10, BPMcenter.org, 2006. Article in a conference proceedings
25. A. C. Kalsing, C. Iochpe, L. H. Thom, "An Incremental Process Mining Algorithm," Proceedings of ICEIS 2010, in press.