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24 1 Introduction

Fig. 1.9 Outline of the book

This book aims to provide a comprehensive overview of process mining. The
book is intended for business process analysts, business consultants, process man-
agers, graduate students, and BPM researchers. On the one hand, the book avoids
delving into unnecessary details. On the other hand, the book does not shy away
from formal definitions and technical issues needed to fully understand the essence
of process mining. As Einstein said: “Everything should be made as simple as pos-
sible, but not one bit simpler”.
Figure 1.9 shows an overview of the book. Part I provides the preliminaries nec-
essary for reading the remainder of the book. Chapter 2 introduces different process
modeling languages and provides an overview of model-based analysis techniques.
Chapter 3 introduces standard data mining techniques such as decision tree learning