VE4OCPM: An Object-Centric Process Mining Variant Explorer Visualisation Approach

This work presents the Variant Explorer, a dual-mode visualisation for Object-Centric Process Mining that reveals control-flow variability and object interactions across process variants, combining object details and subway-map views for intuitive analysis of complex processes. Understanding process variants is essential to detect deviations, exceptions, and improvement opportunities. However, traditional process mining tools assume one case per process instance, which do not work well when events involve multiple objects, such as orders, products, and packages. Existing Object-Centric approaches, like OCπ and Object-Centric Process Analysis (OCPA), introduced models and libraries to support multi-object analysis, but many face technical and usability limitations. To address this gap, this proposal provides two complementary visualisations that show object participation and variant differences side-by-side. Evaluation with real logistics data and user interpretation tests shows that users are able to identify repetitions, skipped activities, deviations, and object interactions clearly. This work offers a practical and interpretable solution for variant analysis in Object-Centric Process Mining (OCPM) and supports better understanding for analysts and business stakeholders.