Real-world processes involve multiple object types with intricate interrelationships. Traditional event logs (in XES format), which record process execution centred around the case notion, are restricted to a single-object perspective, making it difficult to capture the behaviour of multiple objects and their interactions. To address this limitation, object-centric event logs (OCEL) have been introduced to capture both the objects involved in a process and their interactions with events. The object-centric event data (OCED) metamodel extends the OCEL format by further capturing dynamic object attributes and object-to-object relations. Recently OCEL 2.0 has been proposed based on OCED metamodel. Current research on generating OCEL logs requires specific input data sources, and resulting log data often fails to fully conform to OCEL 2.0. Moreover, the generated OCEL logs vary across different representational formats and their quality remains unevaluated. To address these challenges, a set of quality criteria for evaluating OCEL log representations is established. Guided by these criteria, $\textit{Dirigo}$ is proposed -- a method for extracting event logs that not only conforms to OCEL 2.0 but also extends it by capturing the temporal aspect of dynamic object-to-object relations. Object-role Modelling (ORM), a conceptual data modelling technique, is employed to describe the artifact produced at each step of $\textit{Dirigo}$. To validate the applicability of $\textit{Dirigo}$, it is applied to a real-life use case, extracting an event log via simulation. The quality of the log representation of the extracted event log is compared to those of existing OCEL logs using the established quality criteria.
翻译:现实世界中的业务流程通常涉及多种对象类型及其复杂的相互关系。传统的事件日志(采用XES格式)以案例概念为中心记录过程执行,局限于单一对象视角,难以捕捉多对象行为及其交互关系。为克服此局限,对象中心事件日志(OCEL)被提出,旨在同时捕获过程中涉及的对象及其与事件的交互关系。对象中心事件数据(OCED)元模型进一步扩展了OCEL格式,能够记录动态对象属性及对象间关系。近期基于OCED元模型提出的OCEL 2.0标准对此进行了规范。当前生成OCEL日志的研究需要特定输入数据源,且生成的日志数据往往无法完全符合OCEL 2.0标准。此外,现有OCEL日志存在多种表示格式,其质量尚未得到系统评估。为应对这些挑战,本研究建立了一套评估OCEL日志表示形式的质量标准。在此标准指导下,我们提出《Dirigo》方法——该方法不仅能生成符合OCEL 2.0标准的事件日志,还通过捕获动态对象间关系的时间维度特征扩展了现有标准。我们采用概念数据建模技术——对象角色建模(ORM)来描述《Dirigo》各步骤生成的制品。为验证《Dirigo》的适用性,我们将其应用于实际案例,通过仿真提取事件日志。基于既定的质量标准,将所提取事件日志的表示质量与现有OCEL日志进行了对比评估。