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15.3 Architecture
EVS is a process mining framework developed by Businesscape AS. An overview
of the architecture is shown in Figure15.1. e backbone of the EVS architecture
and its search functionality is a graph database integrated with an Apache Lucene
search engine. e graph database consists of serialized trace networks and the
search engine enables fast retrieval of the traces based on textual queries. Adapters
for importing event data are developed for MXML (and SA-MXML), Excel, and
SAP database tables. e rst version of the SAP adapter is described in Ingvaldsen
and Gulla (2007).
e trace networks in the ...