Conformance-oriented Predictive Process Monitoring in BPaaS Based on Combination of Neural Networks

Jiaojiao Wang, Victor Chang*, Dongjin Yu, Chang Liu, Xiaoyu Ma, Dingguo Yu

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Abstract

As a new cloud service for delivering complex business applications, Business Process as a Service (BPaaS) is another challenge faced by cloud service platforms recently. To effectively reduce the security risk caused by business process execution load in BPaaS, it is necessary to detect the non-compliant process executions (instances) from tenants in advance by checking and monitoring the conformance of the executing process instances in real-time. However, the vast majority of existing conformance checking techniques can only be applied to the process instances that have been executed completely offline and only focus on the conformance from the single control-flow perspective. We develop an extensible multi-perspective conformance measurement method to address these issues first and then investigate the predictive conformance monitoring approach by automatically constructing an online multi-perspective conformance prediction model based on deep learning techniques. In addition, to capture more decisive features in the model from both local information and long-distance dependency within an executed process instance, we propose an approach, called CNN-BiGRU, by combining Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) with a variant and enhancement of Recurrent Neural Network (RNN). Extensive experiments on two data sets demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed CNN-BiGRU.
Original languageEnglish
Article number25
JournalJournal of Grid Computing
Volume20
Issue number3
Early online date19 Jul 2022
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Sept 2022

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Funding: This work is supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 62002316), the VC Research (VCR 000067) for Prof. Chang, the Key Research and Development Program of Zhejiang Province (No. 2019C03138), the Key Science and Technology Project of Zhejiang Province (No. 2017C01010), and Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation (No. LQ20F020017).

Keywords

  • Cloud security
  • Conformance-oriented predictive process monitoring
  • Convolution neural networks
  • Gated recurrent unit
  • Multi-perspective conformance

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