A Proposal to Find Mutually Contributable Business or Life Activities Using Conformance Checking

We propose a method to comprehensively find a pair of business or life activities, which can mutually contribute to each other. We assume that the activities with synchronized processes can mutually contribute to each other. A process model of an activity is thus compared to a log of another activity for measuring whether the activities can synchronize their processes to a certain extent using a conformance checking technique. The threshold of the extent is defined on the basis of a randomly generated log containing the same events as those in the compared log. We tentatively evaluated the method through a case study, and confirmed that the method seemed to be valid.