The fundamentals
Started in the late 1990s, process mining is a young, exciting, and growing discipline. The number of research articles in this field increased dramatically over the last 20 years and they created an excellent foundation for process mining tools and real‑life applications.
Books
Book - Process Mining: Data Science in Action
Wil van der Aalst
Process Mining: Data Science in Action

This is the second edition of Wil van der Aalst’s seminal book on process mining, which now discusses the field also in the broader context of data science and big data approaches. It includes several additions and updates, e.g. on inductive mining techniques, the notion of alignments, a considerably expanded section on software tools and a completely new chapter of process mining in the large. It is self‑contained, while at the same time covering the entire process‑mining spectrum from process discovery to predictive analytics.