Do you believe you have implemented a good discovery algorithm? Then submit it to the PDC 2025 by September 12 to put it to the test!

The Process Discovery Contest (PDC) is dedicated to the assessment of tools and techniques that discover business process models from event logs. The objective is to compare the efficiency of techniques to discover process models that provide a proper balance between "overfitting" and "underfitting". A process model is overfitting (the event log) if it is too restrictive, disallowing behavior that is part of the underlying process. This typically occurs when the model only allows for the behavior recorded in the event log. Conversely, it is underfitting (the reality) if it is not restrictive enough, allowing behavior that is not part of the underlying process. This typically occurs if it overgeneralizes the example behavior in the event log.

Contestants can not only submit multiple algorithms, but also multiple configurations of an algorithm. The contestant with the submission that scores best wins the PDC 2025 award!

This year, there will again be a workshop around the PDC (PDCW). During this workshop, contestants get to introduce the discovery approach they are using, and to show and discuss discovery results on a number of selected event logs from the contest.

The audience then gets to vote on the submission results they think were best. The winner of this audience vote wins the PDCW 2025 award!