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Analysis and Application of Transition Systems Based on Petri Nets and Relation Matrices to Business Process Management

Table 2

The key nodes for each trace of log L1 in Algorithm 2.

TraceNodeCurrent statePrefix alignmentCurrent cost

σ1([p1], s0)<>0
([p2], sa)<(a, t1)>0
([p3], )<(a, t1), (b, t2)>0
([p4], )<(a, t1), (b, t2), (>>, t4)>1

σ2([p1], s0)<>0
([p2], s0)<(>>, t1)>1
([p3], )<(>>, t1), (b, t2)>1
([p4], )<(>>, t1), (b, t2), (d, t4)>1

σ3([p1], s0)<>0
([p2], sa)<(a, t1)>0
([p2], sa)<(a, t1), (a, >>)>1
([p3], )<(a, t1), (a, >>), (b, t2)>1
([p4], )<(a, t1), (a, >>), (b, t2), (>>, t4)>2

σ4([p1], s0)<>0
([p2], sa)<(a, t1)>0
([p3], )<(a, t1), (b, t2)>0
([p4], )<(a, t1), (b, t2), (d, t4)>0