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However, though social contextual factors are widely acknowledged to impact the way cases are handled, as yet there have been no studies which have investigated the impact of social contextual features in the predictive process monitoring framework. These factors encompass the way humans and automated agents interact within a particular organisation to execute process-related activities. This paper seeks to address this problem by investigating the impact of social contextual features in the predictive process monitoring framework utilising a survival analysis approach. We propose an approach to censor an event log and build a survival function utilising the Weibull model, which enables us to explore the impact of social contextual factors as covariates. Moreover, we propose an approach to predict the remaining time of an in-flight process instance by using the survival function to estimate the throughput time for each trace, which is then used with the elapsed time to predict the remaining time for the trace. The proposed approach is benchmarked against existing approaches using five real-life event logs and it outperforms these approaches.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/a13110267","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,10,22]],"date-time":"2020-10-22T14:27:58Z","timestamp":1603376878000},"page":"267","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":4,"title":["Investigating Social Contextual Factors in Remaining-Time Predictive Process Monitoring\u2014A Survival Analysis Approach"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8116-5541","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Niyi","family":"Ogunbiyi","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Westminster, London W1W 6UW, UK"}]},{"given":"Artie","family":"Basukoski","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Westminster, London W1W 6UW, UK"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5507-6158","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Thierry","family":"Chaussalet","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Westminster, London W1W 6UW, UK"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,10,22]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Van der Aalst, W.M. 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