Perspectives on process mining within cloud computing

Process mining can be the one of new strategic imperatives of corporation's conduction decisions. A variety of activities occurred in the course of the decision process can be logged and saved into a data repository, and then their explicit logged data and implicit information hided in the logs can be mined out to supervise and manage the statuses of the running processes on a certain purpose. Cloud, a newer concept for constructing various web services together within a centralized web-based interface host, involves lots of communicating and transacting process activities coming from the various web sites. To look into the absence and presence of those activities constituting the processes in a cloud, process mining may be helpful for investigating the cloud processing performance, and thereby results in a certain process model efficient for the further cloud development and its composition renewal. This paper will present a rationale-based architecture of applying process mining to compute the situations of process activities occurred in a cloud, including the discussion of its major components and technical issues. Several perspectives on such an application are summarized as well.