Social Software for Business Process Modeling

2010 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 308-322
Author(s):  
Agnes Koschmider ◽  
Minseok Song ◽  
Hajo A Reijers

Formal models of business processes are used for a variety of purposes. But where the elicitation of the characteristics of a business process usually takes place in a collaborative fashion, the building of the final, formal process model is done mostly by a single person. This article presents the design and Implementation of a Recommendation-Based Process Modeling Support System with ‘social features.’ A process builder using this system will receive recommendations to complete or edit a formal business process model on the basis of previous usage of modeling fragments by her peers. Such features potentially Improve the modeling process and, as such, the modeling outcome, that is, the quality of the process model. This article also contains an evaluation of the system's usage and effectiveness, which builds on an experimental design. It is shown that process builders are inclined to follow up on the provided recommendations and that this will improve the semantical quality of the created model. However, Information on peer usage of modeling fragments does not play a big role in selecting the recommendations being followed up. This article fits within a stream of research that puts emphasis on the modeling process, rather than on the model artifact.

2020 ◽  
pp. 464-478
Author(s):  
Loubna El Faquih ◽  
Mounia Fredj

In recent years, business process modeling has increasingly drawn the attention of enterprises. As a result of the wide use of business processes, redundancy problems have arisen and researchers introduced the variability management, in order to enhance the business process reuse. The most approach used in this context is the Configurable Process Model solution, which consists in representing the variable and the fixed parts together in a unique model. Due to the increasing number of variants, the configurable models become complex and incomprehensible, and their quality is therefore impacted. Most of research work is limited to the syntactic quality of process variants. The approach presented in this paper aims at providing a novel method towards syntactic verification and semantic validation of configurable process models based on ontology languages. We define validation rules for assessing the quality of configurable process models. An example in the e-healthcare domain illustrates the main steps of our approach.


Author(s):  
Ilia Bider ◽  
Erik Perjons

From the practical point of view, the most important parameter that describes the quality of a particular model is its adequacy to the task for which the model will be used. The selection of a “right for the task” modeling approach can substantially increase chances of creating a high quality model. To ensure the “right” choice of modeling approach the following three factors should be considered: (a) properties of the object to be modeled, (b) characteristics of the environment in which the model is being built, (c) intended use of the model. This chapter is devoted to the analysis of these factors for the domain of business process modeling. It presents a simplified classification of the approaches to business process modeling. It lists the most essential properties of business processes, it classifies modeling environments, and it discusses some practical tasks where a business process model can be used. Based on the analysis, practical recommendations on what modeling approach to choose are given dependent on the type of the process under consideration, the task at hand, and the environment in which the model is being built and verified.


Author(s):  
Witold Abramowicz ◽  
Agata Filipowska ◽  
Monika Kaczmarek ◽  
Tomasz Kaczmarek

Semantic Business Process Management (SBPM) bridges the gap between business and IT by taking advantage of the Semantic Web technologies. The foundation for SBPM is the detailed ontological description of enterprise models. These models encompass also business processes taking place in enterprises. Within this chapter, we show how the process-oriented knowledge may be captured for the needs of SBPM. For this reason, we describe semantically enhanced Business Process Modeling Notation (sBPMN) being a conceptualization of one of the main process modeling notations with the fast growing popularity among the tool vendors, namely BPMN. The sBPMN ontology is based on the BPMN specification and may be used as a serialization format by the BPMN modeling tools, thus, making creation of annotations invisible to users. In this chapter, we also present an example of a process model description.


Repositor ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dewi Aprilitasari ◽  
Ilyas Nuryasin ◽  
Vinna Rahmayanti

Re-engineering is used to identify, analyze, and redesign the core business processes of the company/organization aimed at achieving a dramatic increase in critical performance measurements such as cost, quality, service, and speed. The achievement of re-engineering is to support more a corporate mission and reduce costs. UD. Top Stiker is one of the companies engaged in the field of mobile phone accessories, stationery and offices and motorcycles are currently developing, so the need to improve the quality of service is getting better. But the business process in UD. Top Stiker has not been going well and has problems that can interfere with the running of operational activities UD. Top Stiker. Using the BPR method and SWOT analysis to generate alternative strategies and BPMN for business process modeling. The research used to obtain data was obtained through literature studies, observations, interviews and provided questionnaires to UD. Top Stiker owners. The final result of this study was a recommendation of a business process redesign by reducing several process stages from the 18 process stages to 13 process stages so that it become more fast and simple. While the value of the IFAS strength factor is 1.55 and the weakness factor is 1.75, while the value of the EFAS opportunity factor is 1.7 and the risk factor is 1.45.


2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Deni Heryanto ◽  
Vemy Suci Asih

This paper discusses the business process modeling at Donat Madu Cihanjuang, the purpose of this research is to model the business process using BPMN to improve in terms of service for consumers, starting from literature study and data collection through interview. Further modeling and simulation of current business processes using BPMN, problem analysis, modeling and simulation of proposed business processes and comparison of results. The method used is Business Process Improvement (BPI) approach. The results obtained are proposed modeling new business processes in improving services to customers (consumers).


2012 ◽  
Vol 201-202 ◽  
pp. 935-938
Author(s):  
Lei Chen ◽  
Hong Fei Zhan ◽  
Jun He Yu ◽  
Zhong Ren Jiang ◽  
Chen Jian Lei

Business processes existed in every stage of the product life cycle. A lot of knowledge resources were carried in the business processes. The main purpose of business process modeling was to manage knowledge resources. It laid the foundations for the allocation of knowledge resources. To solve the problems of uncertainty and complexity of the management of knowledge resources, this paper studied the modeling form of knowledge resource allocation oriented business process and discussed the integration mode of knowledge resource and the business process. After the modeling process, the business process models were described from business logic relation, scope, time, cost, standard, material resources, tool and human resource. The relating knowledge resource was also determined during the modeling process, which would be used for the allocation of knowledge resources.


2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 207
Author(s):  
Ahsanun Naseh Khudori ◽  
Tri Astoto Kurniawan ◽  
Fatwa Ramdani

Due to the expressiveness of BPMN for representing the business processes, it has replaced EPC as a de-facto process modelling standard. As such, enterprises require to transform their existing EPC business process models to BPMN to keep their competitiveness. ARIS Architect & Designer, as a popular business process modelling tool, provides a model transformation feature, e.g., EPC to BPMN. For the sake of quality, it must guarantee that the resulting model has syntactic correctness and syntactic completeness. However, there is currently limited scientific approach available to evaluate the quality of the model transformation in ARIS Architect & Designer. This study proposes an evaluation of model transformation in ARIS Architect/Designer based on syntactic correctness and syntactic completeness criteria using an experimental approach. The result shows the model transformation in ARIS Architect/Designer has not completely fulfilled the criteria. The result opens further research challenges to improve the quality of EPC to BPMN model transformation.


Author(s):  
Jan Recker ◽  
Jan Mendling

Often, different process models are employed in different phases of the BPM life cycle, each providing a different approach for capturing business processes. Efforts have been undertaken to overcome the disintegration of process models by providing complementary standards for design and execution. However, this claim has not yet been fulfilled. A prominent example is the seemingly complementary nature of BPMN and BPEL. The mapping between these process modeling languages is still unsolved and poses challenges to practitioners and academics. This chapter discusses the problem of translating between process modeling languages. We argue that there is conceptual mismatch between modeling languages stemming from various perspectives of the business-process management life cycle that must be identified for seamless integration. While we focus on the popular case of BPMN vs. BPEL, our approach is generic and can be utilized as a guiding framework for identifying conceptual mismatch between other process modeling languages.


2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 39
Author(s):  
Zoran Nešić ◽  
Predrag Popović ◽  
Miroslav Radojičić ◽  
Leon Ljubić

This paper emphasizes the importance of developing information systems aimed at improving quality of operations. It is presented the basic and most important steps which are the basis for the formation of information systems. An example which is illustrated in this paper refers to the modeling of business processes and relational databases. The importance of proper and documented business process model is reflected in the consistency of the flow of information, data models and activities and their clear perception. It can be considered that the present step is the basis for the further implementation of information technology. In line with this consideration, this paper aims to highlight the importance of the problem presented in the function of improving quality of operations. The presented methodological framework can be universally applied as a starting point for the design of information systems relating to the segment of building permits issuing.


Author(s):  
Elsya Panduwinasari ◽  
Nurafni Eltivia ◽  
Aang Afandi

Precise and clear Business Process Modeling (BPM) can be used to implement the all of processes according to the user’s needs. On the other hand, cloud computing has become a solution for data storage and more effective and efficient computing processes. State Polytechnic of Malang (Polinema) is one of the vocational higher education Institutions in Indonesia that requires business process modeling to facilitate an integrated understanding of process flow. This study aims to describe the business processes of the financial realization system and the structure of cloud computing that can be used. This research used Bizagi for designing Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) in modeling business processes of financial system realization. This paper describes the business model of the financial realization system at Polinema. This study proposes the use of an Infrastructure as a Service IaaS-based cloud computing service model using a hybrid cloud approach to support the work of the system.


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