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What is Transaction Log

Chapter 17
Handbook of Research on Complex Dynamic Process Management: Techniques for Adaptability in Turbulent Environments
Data source in a transaction based information system that describes historical events.
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Semantic Business Process Mining of SAP Transactions
Jon Espen Ingvaldsen (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway) and Jon Atle Gulla (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)
Copyright: © 2010 |Pages: 14
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-669-3.ch017
Abstract
This chapter introduces semantic business process mining of SAP transaction logs. SAP systems are promising domains for semantic process mining as they contain transaction logs that are linked to large amounts of structured data. A challenge with process mining these transaction logs is that the core of SAP systems was not originally designed from the business process management perspective. The business process layer was added later without full rearrangement of the system. As a result, system logs produced by SAP are not process-based, but transaction-based. This means that the system does not produce traces of process instances that are needed for process mining. In this chapter, we show how data available in SAP systems can enrich process instance logs with ontologically structured concepts, and evaluate techniques for mapping executed transaction sequences with predefined process hierarchies.
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Chapter 1
Research and Methodological Foundations of Transaction Log Analysis
An electronic record of interactions that have occurred between a system and users of that system. These log files can come from a variety of computers and systems (Websites, OPAC, user computers, blogs, listserv, online newspapers, etc.), basically any application that can record the user – system – information interactions. For transaction log analysis, behavior is the essential construct of the behaviorism paradigm. At its most basic, a behavior is an observable activity of a person, animal, team, organization, or system. Like many basic constructs, behavior is an overloaded term, as it also refers to the aggregate set of responses to both internal and external stimuli. Therefore, behaviors address a spectrum of actions. Because of the many associations with the term, it is difficult to characterize a term like behavior without specifying a context in which it takes place to provide meaning.
Published in Chapter: Research and Methodological Foundations of Transaction Log Analysis; From: Handbook of Research on Web Log Analysis
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Studying Educational Digital Library Users and the Emerging Research Methodologies
A log of the interactions between a user and the digital library and its content.
Published in Chapter: Studying Educational Digital Library Users and the Emerging Research Methodologies; From: Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Third Edition
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Chapter 2
Historic Perspective of Log Analysis
An autonomous file (or log) containing records of the individual transactions processed by a computerized IR system. (Source: Peters, et al. 1993, p. 39)
Published in Chapter: Historic Perspective of Log Analysis; From: Handbook of Research on Web Log Analysis
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