@inproceedings{8b31f14293594ff8a8c381a6430bbe24,
title = "TimeFlows: Visualizing Process Chronologies from Vast Collections of Heterogeneous Information Objects",
abstract = "In many fact-finding investigations, notably parliamentary inquiries, process chronologies are created to reconstruct how a controversial policy or decision came into existence. Current approaches, like timelines, lack the expressiveness to represent the variety of relations in which historic events may link to the overall chronology. This obfuscates the nature of the interdependence among the events, and the texts from which they are distilled. Based on explorative interviews with expert analysts, we propose an extended, rich set of relationships. We describe how these can be visualized as TimeFlows. We provide an example of such a visualization by illustrating the Childcare Benefits Scandal – an affair that deeply affected Dutch politics in recent years. This work extends the scope of existing process discovery research into the direction of unveiling non-repetitive processes from unstructured information objects.",
keywords = "Parliamentary Inquiry, Process Chronology, TimeFlow, Timeline",
author = "Muller, {Max Lonysa} and Erik Saaman and {van der Werf}, {Jan Martijn E.M.} and Charles Jeurgens and Reijers, {Hajo A.}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024.; 18th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science, RCIS 2024 ; Conference date: 14-05-2024 Through 17-05-2024",
year = "2024",
month = may,
day = "2",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-031-59465-6_13",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-3-031-59464-9",
series = "Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing",
publisher = "Springer",
pages = "203--219",
editor = "Jo{\~a}o Ara{\'u}jo and {de la Vara}, {Jose Luis} and Santos, {Maribel Yasmina} and Sa{\"i}d Assar",
booktitle = "Research Challenges in Information Science",
address = "Germany",
edition = "1",
}