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Hans Weytjens
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1ranked-venue papers in the field
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1since 2021 · last 2025
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Business Process & Enterprise Data · 1
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | ProCause: Generating Counterfactual Outcomes to Evaluate Prescriptive Process Monitoring MethodsabstractPrescriptive Process Monitoring (PresPM) is the subfield of Process Mining that focuses on optimizing processes through real-time interventions based on event log data. Evaluating PresPM methods is challenging due to the lack of ground-truth outcomes for all intervention actions in datasets. A generative deep learning approach from the field of Causal Inference (CI), RealCause, has been commonly used to estimate the outcomes for proposed intervention actions to evaluate a new policy. However, RealCause overlooks the temporal dependencies in process data, and relies on a single CI model architecture, TARNet, limiting its effectiveness. To address both shortcomings, we introduce ProCause, a generative approach that supports both sequential (e.g., LSTMs) and non-sequential models while integrating multiple CI architectures (S-Learner, TLearner, TARNet, and an ensemble). Our research using a simulator with known ground truths reveals that TARNet is not always the best choice; instead, an ensemble of models offers more consistent reliability, and leveraging LSTMs shows potential for improved evaluations when temporal dependencies are present. We further validate ProCause’s practical effectiveness through a real-world data analysis, ensuring a more reliable evaluation of PresPM methods. Jakob De Moor, Hans Weytjens, Johannes De Smedt |
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