Publications

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Journal Articles

  1. Keyvan Amiri Elyasi, Diana Sola, Christian Meilicke, Han van der Aa, Heiner Stuckenschmidt Knowledge Graph Completion for Activity Recommendation in Business Process Modeling
    KI – Künstliche Intelligenz, accepted for publication, 2024
  2. Alexander Kraus, Jana-Rebecca Rehse, Han van der Aa
    Data-driven Assessment of Business Process Resilience
    Process Science, 1: 4, 2024
  3. Timotheus Kampik, Christian Warmuth, Adrian Rebmann, Ron Agam, Lukas N. P. Egger, Andreas Gerber, Johannes Hoffart, Jonas Kolk, Philipp Herzig, Gero Decker, Han van der Aa, Artem Polyvyanyy, Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, Ingo Weber, Matthias Weidlich
    Large Process Models: Business Process Management in the Age of Generative AI
    KI – Künstliche Intelligenz, accepted for publication, 2024
  4. Adrian Rebmann, Han van der Aa
    Recognizing Task-level Events from User Interaction Data
    Information Systems, 124: 102404, 2024
  5. Stephan A. Fahrenkrog-Petersen, Han van der Aa, Matthias Weidlich
    Optimal Event Log Sanitization for Privacy-Preserving Process Mining
    Data & Knowledge Engineering, 145: 102175, 2023
  6. Stephan A. Fahrenkrog-Petersen, Martin Kabierski, Han van der Aa, Matthias Weidlich
    Semantics-aware Mechanisms for Control-flow Anonymization in Process Mining
    Information Systems, 114: 102169, 2023
  7. Bernhard Schäfer, Han van der Aa, Henrik Leopold, Heiner Stuckenschmidt
    Sketch2Process: End-to-end BPMN Sketch Recognition Based on Neural Networks
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 49(4): 2621-2641 (2023)
  8. Adrian Rebmann, Han van der Aa
    Enabling Semantics-aware Process Mining through the Automatic Annotation of Event Logs
    Information Systems, 110: 102111, 2022
  9. Diana Sola, Han van der Aa, Christian Meilicke, Heiner Stuckenschmidt
    Exploiting Label Semantics for Rule-based Activity Recommendation in Business Process Modeling
    Information Systems, 108: 101666, 2022
  10. Martin Bauer, Han van der Aa, Matthias Weidlich
    Sampling and Approximation Techniques for Efficient Process Conformance Checking
    Information Systems, 104: 101666, 2022
  11. Han van der Aa, Adrian Rebmann, Henrik Leopold
    Natural Language-based Detection of Semantic Execution Anomalies in Event Logs
    Information Systems, 102: 101824, 2021.
  12. Han van der Aa, Henrik Leopold, Matthias Weidlich
    Partial Order Resolution of Event Logs for Process Conformance Checking
    Decision Support Systems, 136: 113347, 2020.
  13. Nimrod Busany, Han van der Aa, Arik Senderovich, Avigdor Gal, Matthias Weidlich
    Interval-based Queries over Lossy IoT Event Streams
    ACM Transactions on Data Science, 1(4): 1-27, 2020.
  14. Han van der Aa, Henrik Leopold, Hajo A. Reijers
    Efficient Process Conformance Checking on the Basis of Uncertain Event-to-Activity Mappings
    IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 32(5): 927-940, 2020.
  15. Henrik Leopold, Han van der Aa, Jelmer Offenberg, Hajo A. Reijers
    Using Hidden Markov Models for the Accurate Linguistic Analysis of Process Model Activity Labels
    Information Systems, 83: 30-39, 2019.
  16. Henrik Leopold, Han van der Aa, Fabian Pittke, Manuel Raffel, Jan Mendling, Hajo A. Reijers
    Searching Textual and Model-based Process Descriptions based on a Unified Data Format
    Software and Systems Modeling, 18(2):1179-1194, 2019.
  17. Josep Sànchez-Ferreres, Han van der Aa, Josep Carmona, Lluís Padro
    Aligning Textual and Model-Based Process Descriptions
    Data & Knowledge Engineering, 118: 24-40, 2018.
  18. Elena Kuss, Henrik Leopold, Han van der Aa, Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Hajo A. Reijers
    A Probabilistic Evaluation Procedure for Process Model Matching Techniques
    Data & Knowledge Engineering, 117: 393-406, 2018.
  19. Han van der Aa, Henrik Leopold, Hajo A. Reijers
    Checking Process Compliance against Natural Language Specifications using Behavioral Spaces
    Information Systems, 78: 83-95, 2018.
  20. Han van der Aa, Henrik Leopold, Adela del-Rio-Ortega, Manuel Resinas, Hajo A. Reijers
    Transforming Unstructured Natural Language Descriptions into Measurable Process Performance Indicators Using Hidden Markov Models
    Information Systems, 71: 27-39, 2017.
  21. Han van der Aa, Henrik Leopold, Hajo A. Reijers
    Comparing Textual Descriptions to Process Models – The Automatic Detection of Inconsistencies
    Information Systems, 64: 447-460, 2017.
  22. Claudio Di Ciccio, Han van der Aa, Cristina Cabanillas, Jan Mendling, Johannes Prescher
    Detecting Flight Trajectory Anomalies and Predicting Diversions in Freight Transportation
    Decision Support Systems, 88(1): 1-17, 2016.
  23. Han van der Aa, Hajo A. Reijers, Irene Vanderfeesten
    Designing Like a Pro: The Automated Composition of Workflow Activities
    Computers in Industry, 75(1): 162-177, 2016.

Conference Papers

  1. Daniel Grathwol, Han van der Aa, Hugo A. López
    Automating Pathway Extraction from Clinical Guidelines: A Conceptual Model, Datasets and Initial Experiments
    International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS 2024)
  2. Julian Neuberger, Han van der Aa, Lars Ackermann, Daniel Buschek, Jannic Herrmann, Stefan Jablonski
    Assisted Data Annotation for Business Process Information Extraction from Textual Documents International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS 2024)
  3. Lukas Kirchdorfer, Robert Blümel, Timotheus Kampik, Han van der Aa, Heiner Stuckenschmidt
    AgentSimulator: An Agent-based Approach for Data-driven Business Process Simulation
    International Conference on Process Mining (ICPM 2024)
  4. Adrian Rebmann, Fabian David Schmidt, Goran Glavaš, Han van der Aa
    Evaluating the Ability of LLMs to Solve Semantics-Aware Process Mining Tasks
    International Conference on Process Mining (ICPM 2024)
  5. Thomas Grisold, Han van der Aa, Sandro Franzoi, Sophie Hartl, Jan Mendling, Jan Vom Brocke
    A Context Framework for Sense-making of Process Mining Results
    International Conference on Process Mining (ICPM 2024)
  6. Julian Neuberger, Lars Ackermann, Han van der Aa, Stefan Jablonski
    A Universal Prompting Strategy for Extracting Process Model Information from Natural Language Text using Large Language Models
    International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2024)
  7. Michael Grohs, Han van der Aa, Jana-Rebecca Rehse
    Beyond Log and Model Moves in Conformance Checking: Discovering Process-Level Deviation Patterns
    International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2024)
  8. Alexander Kraus, Han van der Aa
    Looking for Change: A Computer Vision Approach for Concept Drift Detection in Process Mining
    International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2024)
  9. Keyvan Amiri Elyasi, Han van der Aa, Heiner Stuckenschmidt
    PGTNet: A Process Graph Transformer Network for Remaining Time Prediction of Business Process Instances
    International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAISE 2024)
  10. Julian Caspary, Adrian Rebmann, Han van der Aa
    Does This Make Sense? Machine Learning-based Detection of Semantic Anomalies in Business Processes
    International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2023)
  11. Manuel Resinas, Adela del-Rio-Ortega, Han van der Aa
    From Text to Performance Measurement: Automatically Computing Process Performance using Textual Descriptions and Event Logs
    International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2023)
  12. Laura Johanna Oberle, Han van der Aa
    DDPS: A Project Methodology for Data-driven Process Simulation
    Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2023)
  13. Adrian Rebmann, Han van der Aa
    Unsupervised Task Recognition from User Interaction Streams
    International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE 2023)
  14. Diana Sola, Han van der Aa, Christian Meilicke and Heiner Stuckenschmidt
    Activity Recommendation for Business Process Modeling with Pre-trained Language Models
    Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2023)
  15. Hoang Vu, Henrik Leopold, Han van der Aa: 
    What is Business Process Automation Anyway? 
    Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2023)
  16. Adrian Rebmann, Jana-Rebecca Rehse, Han van der Aa
    Uncovering Object-centric Data in Classical Event Logs for the Automated Transformation from XES to OCEL
    International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2022)
  17. Luka Abb, Carsten Bormann, Han van der Aa, Jana-Rebecca Rehse
    Trace Clustering for User Behavior Mining
    European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2022)
  18. Adrian Rebmann, Matthias Weidlich, Han van der Aa
    GECCO: Constraint-driven Abstraction of Low-level Event Logs
    IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2022)
  19. Stephan A. Fahrenkrog-Petersen, Martin Kabierski, Fabian Rösel, Han van der Aa, Matthias Weidlich
    SaCoFa: Semantics-aware Control-flow Anonymization for Process Mining
    International Conference on Process Mining (ICPM 2021)
  20. Bo Zhao, Han van der Aa, Nguyen Thanh Tam, Nguyen Quoc Viet Hung, Matthias Weidlich
    EIRES: Efficient Integration of Remote Data in Event Stream Processing
    ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD 2021)
  21. Adrian Rebmann, Han van der Aa
    Extracting Semantic Process Information from the Natural Language in Event Logs
    International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE 2021)
  22. Bernhard Schäfer, Han van der Aa, Henrik Leopold, Heiner Stuckenschmidt
    Sketch2BPMN: Automatic Recognition of Hand-drawn BPMN Models
    International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE 2021)
  23. Diana Sola, Christian Meilicke, Han van der Aa, Heiner Stuckenschmidt
    A Rule-based Recommendation Approach for Business Process Modeling
    International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE 2021)
  24. Karolin Winter, Han van der Aa, Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, Matthias Weidlich
    Assessing the Compliance of Business Process Models with Regulatory Documents
    International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2020)
  25. Stephan A. Fahrenkrog-Petersen, Han van der Aa, Matthias Weidlich
    PRIPEL: Privacy-Preserving Event Log Publishing Including Contextual Information
    International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2020)
  26. Martin Bauer, Han van der Aa, Matthias Weidlich
    Estimating Process Conformance by Trace Sampling and Result Approximation
    International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2019)
  27. Stephan A. Fahrenkrog-Petersen, Han van der Aa, Matthias Weidlich
    PRETSA: Event Log Sanitization for Privacy-aware Process Discovery
    International Conference on Process Mining (ICPM 2019)
  28. Han van der Aa, Claudio Di Ciccio, Henrik Leopold, Hajo A. Reijers
    Extracting Declarative Process Models from Natural Language
    International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE 2019)
  29. Han van der Aa, Josep Carmona, Henrik Leopold, Jan Mendling, Lluis Padro
    Challenges and Opportunities of Applying Natural Language Processing in Business Process Management
    International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2018)
  30. Han van der Aa, Henrik Leopold, Inge van de Weerd, Hajo A. Reijers
    Causes and Consequences of Fragmented Process Information: Insights from a Case Study
    Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2017)
  31. Han van der Aa, Avigdor Gal, Henrik Leopold, Hajo A. Reijers, Tomer Sagi, Roee Shraga
    Instance-Based Process Matching using Event-Log Information
    International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE 2017)
  32. Han van der Aa, Henrik Leopold, Hajo A. Reijers
    Checking Process Compliance on the Basis of Uncertain Event-to-Activity Mappings
    International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE 2017)
  33. Elena Kuss, Henrik Leopold, Han van der Aa, Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Hajo A. Reijers
    Probabilistic Evaluation of Process Model Matching Techniques
    International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2016)
  34. Han van der Aa, Henrik Leopold, Hajo A. Reijers
    Dealing with Behavioral Ambiguity in Textual Process Descriptions
    International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2016)
  35. Ermeson Andrade, Han van der Aa, Henrik Leopold, Steven Alter, Hajo A. Reijers
    Factors Leading to Business Process Noncompliance and its Positive and Negative Effects: Empirical Insights from a Case Study
    Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2016)
  36. Han van der Aa, Adela del-Rio-Ortega, Manuel Resinas, Henrik Leopold, Antonio Ruiz-Cortés, Jan Mendling, Hajo A. Reijers
    Narrowing the Business-IT Gap in Process Performance Measurement
    International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE 2016)
  37. Han van der Aa, Henrik Leopold, Hajo A. Reijers
    Detecting Inconsistencies between Process Models and Textual Descriptions
    International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2015)
  38. Han van der Aa, Hajo A. Reijers, Irene Vanderfeesten
    Composing Workflow Activities on the Basis of Data-flow Structures
    International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2013)

Book and Edited Proceedings

  1. Han van der Aa, Dominik Bork, Rainer Schmidt, Arnon Sturm (Editors)
    Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling: 25th International Conference, BPMDS 2024, and 29th International Conference, EMMSAD 2024, Limassol, Cyprus, June 3–4, 2024, Proceedings
    Springer Cham, 2024
  2. Han van der Aa, Dominik Bork, Henderik A. Proper, Rainer Schmidt (Editors)
    Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling: 24th International Conference, BPMDS 2023, and 28th International Conference, EMMSAD 2023, Zaragoza, Spain, June 12–13, 2023, Proceedings
    Springer Cham, 2023
  3. Han van der Aa
    Comparing and Aligning Process Representations: Foundations and Technical Solutions
    Lecture Notes on Business Information Processing (LNBIP), Vol. 323, Springer-Verlag, 2018.

Book Chapters

  1. Han van der Aa, Alexander Artikis, Matthias Weidlich
    Complex Event Processing Methods for Process Querying
    Process Querying Methods, Springer, 2022.
  2. Han van der Aa and Henrik Leopold
    Automatically Identifying Process Automation Candidates Using Natural Language Processing
    Blockchain and Robotic Process Automation, Springer, 2021.
  3. Han van der Aa and Henrik Leopold
    Supporting Robotic Process Automation through Natural Language Processing
    Robotic Process Automation, De Gruyter STEM, 2021.

Workshop, Working Conference, and Demo Papers

  1. Julian Neuberger, Jannic Herrmann, Martin Käppel, Han van der Aa, Stefan Jablonski
    TeaPie — A Tool for Efficient Annotation of Process Information Extraction Data
    Demo track of the International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS Demos 2024)
  2. Jiaxin Yuan, Daniela Grigori, Han van der Aa
    Enhancing Predictive Process Monitoring using Semantic Information
    International Workshop on Leveraging Machine Learning for Process Mining (ML4PM 2024)
  3. Florian Lang, Din Hida, Yingjie Bian, Adrian Rebmann, Han van der Aa
    IM-viz: A Tool for the Step-by-step Visualization of the Inductive Miner
    Demo track of the International Conference on Process Mining (ICPM 2023)
  4. Alexandre Goossens, Adrian Rebmann, Johannes De Smedt, Jan Vanthienen, Han van der Aa
    From OCEL to DOCEL – Datasets and Automated Transformation
    International Workshop on Event Data and Behavioral Analytics (EdbA 2023)
  5. Patrizio Bellan, Chiara Ghidini, Mauro Dragoni, Simone Paolo Ponzetto, Han van der Aa
    Process Extraction from Natural Language Text: the PET Dataset and Annotation Guidelines
    Workshop on Natural Language for Artificial Intelligence (NL4AI 2022)
  6. Adrian Rebmann, Peter Pfeiffer, Peter Fettke, Han van der Aa
    Multi-perspective Identification of Event Groups for Event Abstraction
    International Workshop on Event Data and Behavioral Analytics (EdbA 2022)
  7. Henrik Kirchmann, Stephan A. Fahrenkrog-Petersen, Martin Kabierski, Han van der Aa, Matthias Weidlich
    Privacy-Preserving Process Mining with PM4Py
    Demo track of the International Conference on Process Mining (ICPM Demos 2022)
  8. Justus Grimm, Alexander Kraus, Han van der Aa
    CDLG: A Tool for the Generation of Event Logs with Concept Drifts
    Demo track of the International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM demos 2022)
  9. Patrizio Bellan, Han van der Aa, Mauro Dragoni, Chiara Ghidini, Simone Paolo Ponzetto
    PET: An Annotated Dataset for Process Extraction from Natural Language Text Tasks
    Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Business Process Management (NLP4BPM 2022)
  10. Diana Sola, Christian Meilicke, Han van der Aa, Heiner Stuckenschmidt
    On the Use of Knowledge Graph Completion Methods for Activity Recommendation in Business Process Modeling
    International Workshop in Artificial Intelligence for Business Process Management (AI4BPM 2021)
  11. Fabian Rösel, Stephan A. Fahrenkrog-Petersen, Han van der Aa, and Matthias Weidlich
    A Distance Measure for Privacy-preserving Process Mining based on Feature Learning
    International Workshop on Business Process Intelligence (BPI 2021)
  12. Anti Alman, Karl Johannes Balder, Fabrizio M. Maggi, Han van der Aa
    Declo: A Chatbot for User-friendly Specification of Declarative Process Models
    International conference on Business Process Management demos (BPM demos 2020)
  13. Han van der Aa, Karl Johannes Balder, Fabrizio M. Maggi, Alexander Nolte
    Say It In Your Own Words: Defining Declarative Process Models Using Speech Recognition
    BPM Forum (2020)
  14. Martin Bauer, Stephan A. Fahrenkrog-Petersen, Agnes Koschmider, Felix Mannhardt, Han van der Aa, Matthias Weidlich
    ELPaaS: Event Log Privacy as a Service
    International Conference on Business Process Management demos (BPM demos 2019)
  15. Jan Mendling, Henrik Leopold, Lucinéia Heloisa Thom, Han van der Aa
    Natural Language Processing with Process Models
    Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Requirements Engineering & NLP Tool Showcase (REFSQ workshops 2019)
  16. Michael Offel, Han van der Aa, Matthias Weidlich
    Towards Net-based Formal Methods for Complex Event Processing
    Large-scale Data Management and Processing – Applications in Research and Industry (LWDA 2018)
  17. Henrik Leopold, Han van der Aa, Hajo A. Reijers
    Identifying Candidate Tasks for Robotic Process Automation in Textual Process Descriptions
    BPMDS’18 Working Conference (BPMDS 2018)
  18. Henrik Leopold, Han van der Aa, Fabian Pittke, Manuel Raffel, Jan Mendling, Hajo A. Reijers
    Integrating Textual and Model-based Process Descriptions for Comprehensive Process Search
    BPMDS’16 Working Conference (BPMDS 2016)
  19. Han van der Aa, Henrik Leopold, Kimon Batoulis, Mathias Weske, Hajo A. Reijers
    Integrated Process and Decision Modeling for Data-Driven Processes
    International Workshop on Decision Mining & Modeling for Business Processes (DeMiMoP 2015)
  20. Han van der Aa, Henrik Leopold, Felix Mannhardt, Hajo A. Reijers
    On the Fragmentation of Process Information: Challenges, Solutions, and Outlook
    BPMDS’15 Working Conference (BPMDS 2015)

Invited Article

Extended Abstracts

  1. Stephan A. Fahrenkrog-Petersen, Han van der Aa, Matthias Weidlich
    Privacy-Aware Analysis based on Data Series (Tutorial Abstract)
    ICDE Tutorial 2024
  2. Anti Alman, Claudio Di Ciccio, Fabrizio Maria Maggi, Marco Montali, Han van der Aa
    RuM: Declarative Process Mining, Distilled (Tutorial Abstract)
    BPM Tutorial 2021
  3. Han van der Aa, Henrik Leopold, Matthias Weidlich
    Partial Order Resolution of Event Logs for Process Conformance Checking (Extended Abstract) EMISA 2021
  4. Martin Bauer, Han van der Aa, Matthias Weidlich
    Sampling and Approximation Techniques for Efficient Process Conformance Checking (Extended Abstract) EMISA 2020
  5. Han van der Aa
    Comparing and Aligning Process Representations (Extended Thesis Abstract) Int. Conf. on Business Process Management 2018
  6. Claudio Di Ciccio, Han van der Aa, Cristina Cabanillas, Jan Mendling, Johannes Prescher
    Detecting Flight Trajectory Anomalies and Predicting Diversions in Freight Transportation (Extended Abstract) EMISA 2016

Dissertations

  1. Han van der Aa
    Comparing and Aligning Process Representations
    PhD Thesis, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (2018).
  2. Han van der Aa
    Composing Workflow Activities
    Master’s Thesis, Eindhoven University of Technology (2013).