Alessandro Berti

Publications

Below is a selection of my publications in the process mining field. For a complete list, please refer to my Google Scholar or DBLP profiles.

Process Discovery

• Alessandro Berti, and Wil van der Aalst. "OC-PM: analyzing object-centric event logs and process models." International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer 25.1 (2023): 1-17. [PDF]
• Wil van der Aalst, and Alessandro Berti. "Discovering object-centric Petri nets." Fundamenta informaticae 175.1-4 (2020): 1-40. [PDF]
• Alessandro Berti, and Wil van der Aalst. "Extracting multiple viewpoint models from relational databases." International Symposium on Data-Driven Process Discovery and Analysis (SIMPDA 2018). Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. [PDF]

Conformance Checking

• Alessandro Berti, and Wil van der Aalst. "A novel token-based replay technique to speed up conformance checking and process enhancement." Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2021. 1-26. [PDF]
• Alessandro Berti, and Wil van der Aalst. "Reviving Token-based Replay: Increasing Speed While Improving Diagnostics." Proceedings of the Algorithms & Theories for the Analysis of Event Data (ATAED 2019), CEUR Workshop Proceedings Vol. 2371 (2019): 87-103. [PDF]

ETL and Event Log Formats

• Alessandro Berti, et al. "A generic approach to extract object-centric event data from databases supporting SAP ERP." Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (2023): 1-23. [PDF]
• Julian Weber, Alessandro Berti, Gyunam Park, Majid Rafiei, and Wil van der Aalst. "Interactive Process Identification and Selection from SAP ERP." Proceedings of the International Conference on Process Mining (ICPM 2022), Demo Track. [PDF]
• Alessandro Berti, Gyunam Park, Majid Rafiei, and Wil van der Aalst. “An event data extraction approach from SAP ERP for process mining.“ International Conference on Process Mining (ICPM 2021), pp. 255-267. Cham: Springer International Publishing, October 2021. [PDF]
• Alessandro Berti, Anahita Farhang Ghahfarokhi, Gyunam Park, and Wil van der Aalst. "A scalable database for the storage of object-centric event logs." Proceedings of the International Conference on Process Mining (ICPM 2021), Demo Track. [PDF]
• Anahita Farhang Ghahfarokhi, Gyunam Park, Alessandro Berti, and Wil van der Aalst. "OCEL: A standard for object-centric event logs." European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS 2021). Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. [PDF]

Case Studies (ERP)

• Alessandro Berti, et al. "Analyzing Inter-Connected Processes: Using Object-Centric Process Mining to Analyze Procurement Processes." International Journal of Data Science and Analytics (2023). [PDF]
• Dina Kretzschmann, et al. "Overstock Problems in a Purchase-to-Pay Process: An Object-Centric Process Mining Case Study." International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024. [PDF]
• Dina Kretzschmann, et al. "A Data-Driven Framework for Retail Inventory Optimization: Integrating Object-Centric Process Mining and Mathematical Models." Accepted at BIS 2025. [PDF]

Machine Learning

• Alessandro Berti, et al. "Graph-based feature extraction on object-centric event logs." International Journal of Data Science and Analytics (2023). [PDF]
• Alessandro Berti. “Improving process mining prediction results in processes that change over time.” Proceedings of the International Conference on Data Analytics (DATA ANALYTICS 2016), IARIA. [PDF]

Organizational Network Analysis

• Alessandro Berti, Alessandro Sperduti, and Andrea Burattin. "A novel criterion for overlapping communities detection and clustering improvement." 2014 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining (CIDM). IEEE, 2014. [PDF]

Software Tools and Technologies

• Alessandro Berti, Sebastiaan J. van Zelst, and Daniel Schuster. "PM4Py: a process mining library for Python." Software Impacts 17 (2023): 100556. [PDF]
• Alessandro Berti, Minh Phan Nghia, and Wil van der Aalst. "PM4Py-GPU: A High-Performance General-Purpose Library for Process Mining." International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2022). Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. [PDF]
• Alessandro Berti, et al. "The process mining toolkit (pmtk): Enabling advanced process mining in an integrated fashion." Proceedings of the International Conference on Process Mining (ICPM 2021), Demo Track. [PDF]
• Alessandro Berti, Sebastiaan J. van Zelst, and Wil van der Aalst. "PM4Py Web Services: Easy Development, Integration and Deployment of Process Mining Features in any Application Stack." International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2019), Demo Track. CEUR Workshop Proceedings Vol. 2420. [PDF]
• Alessandro Berti, Sebastiaan J. van Zelst, and Wil van der Aalst. "Process Mining for Python (PM4Py): Bridging the Gap Between Process- and Data Science." Proceedings of the International Conference on Process Mining (ICPM 2019), Demo Track. [PDF]

Generative AI (Large Language Models)

• Alessandro Berti. "Evaluating Personality Traits of Large Language Models Through Scenario-based Interpretive Benchmarking." Pre-Print, 2025. [PDF]
• Alessandro Berti, Daniel Schuster, and Wil van der Aalst. "Abstractions, Scenarios, and Prompt Definitions for Process Mining with LLMs: A Case Study." International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2023). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023. [PDF]
• Alessandro Berti, et al. "Evaluating large language models in process mining: Capabilities, benchmarks, and evaluation strategies." International Conference on Business Process Modeling, Development and Support. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024. [PDF]
• Alessandro Berti, and Mahnaz Sadat Qafari. "Leveraging large language models (llms) for process mining (technical report)." arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.12701 (2023). [PDF]
• Alessandro Berti, Humam Kourani, and Wil MP van der Aalst. "PM-LLM-Benchmark: Evaluating large language models on process mining tasks." International Conference on Process Mining. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024. [PDF]
• Humam Kourani, et al. "ProMoAI: Process Modeling with Generative AI." IJCAI 2024. [PDF]
• Humam Kourani, et al. "Process modeling with large language models." International Conference on Business Process Modeling, Development and Support. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024. [PDF]
• Humam Kourani, et al. "Leveraging Large Language Models for Enhanced Process Model Comprehension." arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.08892 (2024). [PDF]

Other

• Mohammadreza Fani Sani, Alessandro Berti, Sebastiaan J. van Zelst, and Wil van der Aalst. "Filtering Toolkit: Interactively Filter Event Logs to Improve the Quality of Discovered Models." International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2019), Demo Track. CEUR Workshop Proceedings Vol. 2420. [PDF]
• Aureli Alabert, Alessandro Berti, Ricard Caballero, and Marco Ferrante. "No-free-lunch theorems in the continuum." Theoretical Computer Science, 600 (2015): 98-106. [PDF]