Wil van der Aalst is a full professor at the Department of Mathematics & Computer Science of the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (TU/e), The Netherlands, where he chairs the Architecture of Information Systems (AIS) group and serves as the scientific director of the Data Science Center Eindhoven. He also has a part-time appointment in the BPM group of Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia. His research and teaching interests include information systems, business process management, process modeling, Petri nets, process mining, and simulation.

Wil has published more than 180 journal papers, 19 books, 425 refereed conference or workshop publications, and 60 book chapters. Many of his papers are highly cited (he has a H-index of more than 123 according to Google Scholar, the highest among all European computer scientists) and his ideas on process support have influenced researchers, software developers, and standardization committees worldwide.

First book on process mining, bridging the gap between business process modeling and business intelligence and positioning process mining within the rapidly growing data science discipline

This second edition includes over 150 pages of new material, e.g. on data quality, the relation to data science, inductive mining techniques and the notion of alignments

Written by one of the most influential and most-cited computer scientists and the best-known BPM researcher

Self-contained and comprehensive overview for a broad audience in academia and industry, including up-to-date information on tools and the exploitation of modern IT infrastructures

Includes supplementary material: [...]

Introduction.- Preliminaries.- From Event Logs to Process Models.- Beyond Process Discovery.- Putting Process Mining to Work.- Reflection.- Epilogue.