In this episode of A Side Of Data, I interview Josep Carmona, who is an associate professor at the polytechnic university of Catalonia. He is an active contributor in the range of fields connected to data science, process mining, BPM. Josep is an expert in Conformance checking algorithms who with his team publishes highly cited scientific articles on the topic and recently published a book. We talk about what process mining and process conformance are, discuss in-depth its types with their advantages and disadvantages. Josep mentions offline and online usages of the conformance checking and metrics of quality. We also discuss several possible use-cases for different aspects of conformance checking In the end, we also go into the bonus topics such as RPA and process conformance, process drift and conformance checking, process prediction and conformance checking.Josep's book: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319994130 Process Mining Use Cases:https://www.win.tue.nl/ieeetfpm/doku.php?id=shared:process_mining_case_studiesHis page: https://www.cs.upc.edu/jcarmona/ Find A SIDE OF DATA on twitter: https://twitter.com/ASideOFDataAnd on the web: asideofdata.comSEND us an email with suggestions: [email protected]