[AISWorld] Ph.D. position at K.U.Leuven: "Business Process Mining: new techniques and evaluation metrics"

[Vanthienen, Jan]

The Leuven Institute for Research on Information Systems (LIRIS) is looking for a Research Assistant for the project "Business Process Mining: new techniques and evaluation metrics", starting on 1 October 2010 for 1 year, with the possibility of extension for a further 3 years.
The Leuven Institute for Research on Information Systems (LIRIS) is a research group of the Faculty of Business and Economics at K.U.Leuven, Belgium.

The analysis of the event logs of information systems and/or enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems is a new and promising way of acquiring insights into business processes. Building upon previous research describing techniques that represent process mining as a first-order classification problem on event logs supplemented with artificial negative events, it is examined how rule induction techniques can be applied to various process mining tasks. The research also tries to improve existing algorithms and establish a general framework for the evaluation of induced process models with negative events. The theoretical contributions will be empirically validated for applications in audit compliance, risk management and healthcare, and also for semi-structured processes.

Candidates preferably have a master's degree in Computer Science, Informatics, Commercial Engineering in Informatics or Information Management. 
Applications must be received no later than 30/08/2010.

You will conduct research and work towards a Ph.D. in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Jan Vanthienen and Prof. Dr. Bart Baesens.
For more information: http://www.econ.kuleuven.be/eng/fac/admin/vacancies/default.htm