An Enhanced LSTM Method to Improve the Accuracy of the Business Process Prediction

Abstract Prediction of the process behavior plays a key role in business process management. This research benefits from recent development in the field of deep learning to predict the next event in business processes. The proposed method uses Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) as a promising architecture of recurrent neural networks. This architecture is implemented using a number of configurations with the aim of investigating how each of them affects the performance of the prediction models. In order to build and evaluate our prediction models, we used two publicly available datasets (BPI 2012 and BPI 2017). After developing 300 prediction models, the results indicated that the proposed method outperforms the state-of-the-art methods in terms of precision. The best result in terms of Accuracy (0.907) was achieved through “one-hidden” layer LSTM architecture and by using “Big” configuration in the absence of “feedback”.