A.3.1.MR:4.4 - Keep process-mining contributions separate

Treat evidence preparation, process discovery, and candidate-Method recovery as three contributions.

1. Named data-preparation Method or Methods select source events, name activities, correlate records and objects, choose event-state or start/complete encodings, and apply abstraction. Dated preparation Work uses named source data and produces an event-log episteme about the identified event-data collection or structure described by the log.
2. A named discovery Method may return a behavioural-model episteme. Conformance checking may compare a log with a separate descriptive or normative model. Enhancement may add timing, organizational, performance, or prediction claims. Object-centric mining may preserve several typed objects and qualified relations.
3. This recovery Method uses those well-scoped results with other evidence to return candidate reusable-way accounts, unrecorded contributions, lowering and a distinguishing question only when it changes the intended use.

None of the earlier contributions automatically recovers a Method. A discovered process model remains a U.Episteme about selected evidence unless another rule establishes a different kind or use. A conformance result relates a log and model; it does not prove that the model describes the obtaining Method or that every deviation is defective. Executability and visual process form do not satisfy A.3.2.

Treat process, actual process, case, activity, event, variant, deviation, and process model as cues to recover the direct subject, not as types supplied by the words. Use E.10 and A.15.6 when the source remains ambiguous.