We are happy to share that on the 8th of October (1-2 pm, Adelaide time) we will run the first Process mining seminar!

Where Ethan Johnson will talk about the discovery of Social online processes using Process mining.

Please join us in 5.57, IW, North Terrace Campus. 

Title: Process Mining for Social Networks: Uncovering AI and Human Behaviour Online

Abstract: The rapid growth of social media presents a unique opportunity to study coordinated agent behaviour in an unfiltered environment. Online processes often exhibit complex structures that reflect the nature of the user behaviour, whether it is authentic and genuine, or part of a coordinated effort by malicious agents to spread misinformation and disinformation. Detection of AI-generated content can be extremely challenging due to the high quality of large language model-generated text.Therefore, approaches that use metadata like post timings are required to effectively detect coordinated AI-driven campaigns. Existing work that models the spread of information online is limited in its ability to represent different control flows that occur within the network in practice. Process mining offers techniques for the discovery of process models with different routing constructs and are yet to be applied to social networks. We propose to leverage process mining methods for the discovery of AI and human agent behaviour within social networks. By applying process mining techniques to real-world Twitter (now X) event data, we demonstrate how the structural and behavioural properties of discovered process models can reveal coordinated AI and human behaviours online.