Rodríguez-Quintero, J.-F.; Sánchez-Díaz, A.; Iriarte-Navarro, L.; Maté, A.; Marco-Such, M.; Trujillo, J. Fraud Audit Based on Visual Analysis: A Process Mining Approach. Appl. Sci.2021, 11, 4751.
Rodríguez-Quintero, J.-F.; Sánchez-Díaz, A.; Iriarte-Navarro, L.; Maté, A.; Marco-Such, M.; Trujillo, J. Fraud Audit Based on Visual Analysis: A Process Mining Approach. Appl. Sci. 2021, 11, 4751.
Rodríguez-Quintero, J.-F.; Sánchez-Díaz, A.; Iriarte-Navarro, L.; Maté, A.; Marco-Such, M.; Trujillo, J. Fraud Audit Based on Visual Analysis: A Process Mining Approach. Appl. Sci.2021, 11, 4751.
Rodríguez-Quintero, J.-F.; Sánchez-Díaz, A.; Iriarte-Navarro, L.; Maté, A.; Marco-Such, M.; Trujillo, J. Fraud Audit Based on Visual Analysis: A Process Mining Approach. Appl. Sci. 2021, 11, 4751.
Abstract
Among the knowledge areas in which process mining has had an impact, the audit domain is particularly striking. Traditionally, audits seek evidence in a data sample that allows to make inferences about a population. Mistakes are usually committed when generalizing the results and anomalies, therefore, appear in unprocessed sets. However, there are some efforts to address these limitations using process mining-based approaches for fraud detection. To the best of our knowledge, no fraud audit method exists that combines process mining techniques and visual analytics to identify relevant patterns. This paper presents a fraud audit approach based on the combination of process mining techniques and visual analytics. The main advantages are: (i) a method is included that guides the use of the visual capabilities of process mining to detect fraud data patterns during an audit; (ii) the approach can be generalized to any business domain; (iii) well-known process mining techniques are used (Dotted Chart, Trace Alignment, Fuzzy Miner…). The techniques were selected by a group of experts and were extended to enable filtering for contextual analysis, to handle levels of process abstraction, and to facilitate implementation in the area of fraud audits. Based on the proposed approach, we developed a software solution that is currently being used in the financial sector as well as in the telecommunications and hospitality sector. Finally, for demonstration purposes, we present a real hotel management use case in which we detected suspected fraud behaviors, thus validating the effectiveness of the approach.
Keywords
fraud audit; process mining; visual analytics
Subject
Computer Science and Mathematics, Information Systems
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