Timbus - Timeless Business

Creator
SAP

License
Copyright 2013 SAP AG

More Information About This Tool
The tool is described in deliverables D6.5 and D6.10.

A publication on the conformance checking techniques used by the tool is T. Molka, D. Redlich, M. Drobek, A. Caetano, X.-J. Zeng, W. Gilani. Conformance Checking for BPMN-Based Process Models. In: Proceedings of the 29th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, ACM, NY, 2014

Create a New Extractor
To learn how to develop an extractor, follow this link to a tutorial by Caixa Magica Software: https://opensourceprojects.eu/p/timbus/context-population/extractors/wiki/How%20to%20create%20a%20new% 20Extractor/

How to Use the Process Extractor
The extractor is a command line tool. When using the process extractor, the user may provide several parameters to the tool:

1. input file path: the path to the file containing the event log that is to be mined
2. output file path: the path where the process extraction result is written to optimisation duration: determines how long the process extraction should run
3. output type: the type of the output model; this may be either “--bpmn” or “--archi”;
4. --bpmn: a BPMN model is generated that uses the iERM format,
5. --archi: an Archimate model is generated, which may be viewed and edited with Archi.
6. debug: with this optional parameter debug mode can be enabled which informs the user about the process extraction progress, including screenshots of the extracted process models.

1. Example command for mining a bpmn model from the WP8 sensor acquisition use case: java -jar ./tools/process-miner.jar “./logs/sensor.csv” \ “./models/wp8.bpmn” 20 --bpmn –debug
2. Or for mining an archimate model from the WP9 event log: java -jar ./tools/process-miner.jar “./logs/drugfusion.xes” \ “./models/drugfusion.archimate” 20 –-archi

The tool requires Java to be installed on the system. Otherwise there is no installation required, simply copy the .jar file to your system.