Batch Processing Across Multiple Business Processes Based on Object Life Cycles

2016 ◽  
pp. 195-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luise Pufahl ◽  
Mathias Weske
Keyword(s):  
Business Processes ◽  
Batch Processing ◽  
Life Cycles

Reengineering a Green Business

2013 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Yi-Chen Lan
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Performance Monitoring ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Life Cycles ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Environmentally Sustainable ◽  
Process Characteristics ◽  
Sustainable Operation ◽  
Green Business ◽  
Corporate Social

A green environment is a social as well as business issue. Business enterprises, as a large part of the global community, are obliged to make endeavours toward an environmentally sustainable operation that reflects their corporate social responsibility. One of the effective approaches of making business operations more environmental friendly is to undertake business process reengineering with the strategic focus on green perspective. This paper discusses the reengineering of a green business from its process viewpoint. This reengineering of business processes is undertaken in the context of five areas of green business characteristics (necessary, effective, efficient, agile, and measureable) and their corresponding life cycles. This analysis paves the path for an in-depth research agenda for developing and operating green business processes in organizations. The framework is explained with five key phases namely, 1) examining business processes with green process characteristics, 2) integrating business processes with the environmental standards, 3) green business process redesign, 4) training programs development and change management, and 5) performance monitoring and process improvement. The paper concludes with a suggestion of the framework validation and future research directions.

Reengineering a Green Business

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi-Chen Lan
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Performance Monitoring ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Life Cycles ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Process Redesign ◽  
Environmentally Sustainable ◽  
Process Characteristics ◽  
Sustainable Operation ◽  
Green Business

A green environment is a social as well as business issue. Business enterprises, as a large part of the global community, are obliged to make endeavours toward an environmentally sustainable operation that reflects their corporate social responsibility. One of the effective approaches of making business operations more environmental friendly is to undertake business process reengineering with the strategic focus on green perspective. This paper discusses the reengineering of a green business from its process viewpoint. This reengineering of business processes is undertaken in the context of five areas of green business characteristics (necessary, effective, efficient, agile, and measureable) and their corresponding life cycles. This analysis paves the path for an in-depth research agenda for developing and operating green business processes in organizations. The framework is explained with five key phases namely, 1) examining business processes with green process characteristics, 2) integrating business processes with the environmental standards, 3) green business process redesign, 4) training programs development and change management, and 5) performance monitoring and process improvement. The paper concludes with a suggestion of the framework validation and future research directions.

Information Systems Development and the Need for Computer Aided Method Engineering

2011 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Ajantha Dahanayake
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Process Development ◽  
Systems Development ◽  
Life Cycles ◽  
Information Systems Development ◽  
Global Level ◽  
Business Change ◽  
On Line ◽  
Control Decision

The business issues of today are global in nature, for instance, organizational objectives may be as varied as increasing profits, obtaining faster product life cycles, or increasing the competition at a global level. To get more value out of a business, people tend to re-engineer the business process. Development of information systems today is mostly the process of bringing improvements to the existing system, as part of a large business change initiative, and systems development efforts that do not address these problems tend to be incomplete or inefficient. As a result, the introduction of various applications and architectures is becoming increasingly common. New and different technologies such as telecommunication, artificial intelligence, image processing, multimedia, object orientation, as well as various applications such as batch or on-line transaction processing, process control, decision support, and work flow support are increasingly being introduced to improve the performance of business processes. Information systems development is changing, and the types of systems being built are much more varied and complex.

A Dataflow-Oriented Modeling Approach to Business Processes

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giorgio Bruno
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Life Cycles ◽  
Process Models ◽  
Reference Models ◽  
Modeling Approach ◽  
Extraction Algorithm ◽  
Business Entities ◽  
Oriented Approach ◽  
Selection Of

This paper presents a dataflow-oriented modeling approach (called DMA) targeted at business processes that operate on the entities forming an information system. The approach promotes the integration between business processes and information systems in that process models result from the interconnection of tasks and dataflow nodes. The latter denote flows of business entities of the same type and state. The entity types along with their relationships and attributes are shown in a companion information model. DMA leverages the dataflow to represent human decisions, which may concern the selection of the input entities when a task needs more than one, and the selection of the task with which to handle the input entities when two or more tasks are admissible. An example related to an order handling process illustrates the representation of human choices. DMA process models build on the artifact-oriented approach in that they combine the life cycles of the business entities involved. The life cycles can be separated and this facilitates the comparison with reference models. A major contribution of the paper is the presentation of the extraction algorithm which provides the separated life cycles.

Representations of Artifact-Centric Business Processes

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 45-61
Author(s):  
Giorgio Bruno
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Life Cycles ◽  
Process Models ◽  
Business Process Models ◽  
Structure Dynamics ◽  
Pros And Cons ◽  
Business Entities

Current approaches to the representation of business processes can be divided into two major categories, referred to as activity-centric and artifact-centric. The former underline the tasks as the basic units of work, and the latter stress the importance of the life cycles of the artifacts (i.e., the business entities). This paper analyzes the major issues that characterize the artifact-centric approach, i.e., structure, dynamics and coordination. These issues can be dealt with in various ways, ranging from separate models to holistic ones. The pros and cons of separate models and compact ones are analyzed on the basis of how they cope with three relevant aspects, i.e., aggregation, synchronization and matching. A number of motivating examples are presented along with the notation used to define them. This notation, named ARTS (ARtifacts and TAsks), considers both artifacts and tasks as first-class citizens of business process models.

Viewpoints on Business Process Models

2018 ◽  
pp. 788-798
Author(s):  
Giorgio Bruno
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Role Model ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Life Cycles ◽  
Process Models ◽  
Business Process Models ◽  
Business Entities ◽  
Operational Activities

Over the past few years a number of viewpoints have influenced the design of notations for business processes. They emphasize the different elements (tasks, business entities and roles) that compose business process models; for this reason, they are referred to as activity-centric, data-centric, and role-centric viewpoints. The activity-centric viewpoint focuses on the orchestration of operational activities, which encompass human tasks and automatic ones. On the contrary, the data-centric viewpoint stresses the identification of the key business entities and their life cycles consisting of states and transitions. In the role-centric viewpoint, a process model is made up of several “role” models; each role model provides a restricted view of the process limited to the behavior of the role under consideration. This article illustrates how the above-mentioned viewpoints can be extracted from a global model, with the help of an example concerning the submission of papers to conferences.

scholarly journals Ontology-based approach to reuse of business process knowledge

2008 ◽  
Vol 42 (43) ◽  
pp. 168-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donatas Čiukšys ◽  
Albertas Čaplinskas
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Systems Engineering ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Knowledge Engineering ◽  
Main Idea ◽  
Life Cycles ◽  
Application Domain ◽  
Process Ontology ◽  
Process Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Based

The paper proposes an approach to reuse of business process knowledge based on domain engineering, knowledge engineering and ontology-based systems engineering. The main idea of the proposed approach is to separate business process ontology and application domain ontology, and reuse the process ontology in different application domains. A notion of generic business process is introduced and is defined as a family of similar business processes. The two life cycles activity oflocation of generic business process in application domain is discussed.Ontologijomis grindžiamas verslo procesų žinių pakartotinio naudojimo metodasDonatas Čiukšys, Albertas Čaplinskas SantraukaStraipsnyje pristatomas verslo procesų žinių pakartotinio naudojimo metodas, grindžiamas dalykinių sričių inžinerija, žinių inžinerija ir ontologijomis grindžiama sistemų inžinerija. Pagrindinė siūlomo metodo idėja yra atskirti verslo proceso ontologiją nuo dalykinės srities ontologijos ir pakartotinai panaudoti proceso ontologiją skirtingose dalykinėse srityse. Pasiūloma apibendrinto verslo proceso sąvoka, apibrėžiama kaip panašių verslo procesų šeima. Straipsnyje aptariama apibendrinto verslo proceso lokacija dalykinėje srityje, susidedanti iš dviejų gyvavimo ciklų. Pirmame cikle yra atliekama apibendrinto proceso inžinerija, antrame – konkretaus proceso inžinerija. Pastaroji susideda iš trijų žingsnių: proceso konfigūravimo, dalykinės sritiesesybių priskyrimo proceso vaidmenims ir valdymo srautų tarp proceso veiklų apibrėžimo.

Identifying Batch Processing Features in Workflows

2010 ◽  
pp. 486-508
Author(s):  
Jian-Xun Liu ◽  
Jiping Wen
Keyword(s):  
Business Processes ◽  
Theoretical Foundation ◽  
Batch Processing ◽  
Functional Dependency ◽  
Workflow Mining ◽  
Mining Algorithms

The employment of batch processing in workflow is to model and enact the batch processing logic for multiple cases of a workflow in order to optimize business processes execution dynamically. Our previous work has preliminarily investigated the model and its implementation. However, it does not figure out precisely which activity and how a/multiple workflow activity(s) can gain execution efficiency from batch processing. Inspired by workflow mining and functional dependency inference, this chapter proposes a method for mining batch processing patterns in workflows from process dataflow logs. We first introduce a new concept, batch dependency, which is a specific type of functional dependency in database. The theoretical foundation of batch dependency as well as its mining algorithms is analyzed and investigated. Based on batch dependency and its discovery technique, the activities meriting batch processing and their batch processing features are identified. With the batch processing features discovered, the batch processing areas in workflow are recognized then. Finally, an experiment is demonstrated to show the effectiveness of our method.

Integrated Process Planning Based on a Federative Factory Data Management

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Mosch ◽  
Reiner Anderl ◽  
Antonio A´lvaro de Assis Moura ◽  
Klaus Schuetzer
Keyword(s):  
Data Management ◽  
System Integration ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Life Cycles ◽  
Process Models ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Factory Planning ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
Planning Processes

Manufacturing companies are confronted with short product life cycles, more variety of products and short cycles of leap innovations. This results in a higher frequency of changes in factory structures and an increasing importance of factory planning processes. Factory planning processes are characterized by participative and interdisciplinary processes due to various actors dealing in different domains and working in distributed environments. The result is a heterogeneous IT-landscape based on increasing use of multiple isolated and domain-specific IT tools and systems and hereby an increasing redundant, inhomogeneous and inconsistent data-holding. The control of these factory planning processes can be reached by holistic approaches and consistent system integration. The mean of system integration is the consideration of all domains involved in planning processes, used IT tools and systems and business processes. In this paper, the approach of a Federative Factory Data Management (FFDM) based on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Semantic Model funded by the DFG (Germany) and CAPES (Brazil) will be described, which faces up the described challenges of factory planning processes. The focus of this approach is on the integration of isolated used IT tools for the dimensioning and structuring of factory systems, the generated domain-specific partial models as well as the coordination and synchronization of engineering workflows. In order of the control of factory planning processes the integration and coupling of the views of products, processes and resources on metadata level is required for a communication between different isolated and domain-specific IT tools of the various involved domains without losses or redundancies. The integration and coupling of these three views is based on a document independent factory structure description linked with factory defining metadata. In order to integrate and couple these different views, the relevant information and independencies are identified. Current reference process models for production and factory planning as well as the current methods to describe domain-specific models are analyzed. This is the basis for the development of the FFDM to build up a semantically coherent information model as a common communication and integration framework to represent the factory and to define and to access factory data. The goal of the presented approach is the increasing of planning harmonization, certainty, quality and frequency by a consistent information flow as well as the reduction of time of product development and factory planning processes.

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