Context-Based Handling of Mobile Process Activities

2019 ◽  
pp. 144-169
Author(s):  
Rüdiger Pryss ◽  
Manfred Reichert
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Crucial Component ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Mobile Process ◽  
Knowledge Intensive ◽  
High Flexibility ◽  
Mobile Context

Process technology constitutes a crucial component of information systems. In this context, high flexibility is required as business functions must be quickly adaptable to cope with dynamic business changes. As recent developments allow for the use of mobile devices in knowledge-intensive areas, it is often demanded to enhance process-aware information systems with mobile activity support. In general, the technical integration of this activity type with existing process management technology is challenging. For example, protocols governing the communication between mobile devices and process management systems must be adapted. If a mobile context shall be additionally considered, the integration gets even more complex. However, the use of a mobile context offers advantages. For example, the mobile activity execution time may be decreased if mobile activities are only assigned to those users whose location is beneficial. This chapter proposes an approach to enable the robust handling of single process activities on mobile devices based on a mobile process model.

Robust Execution of Mobile Activities in Process-Aware Information Systems

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 50-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rüdiger Pryss ◽  
Manfred Reichert
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Management Technology ◽  
Single Process ◽  
Knowledge Intensive ◽  
High Flexibility ◽  
Mobile Context ◽  
Smart Mobile ◽  
Smart Mobile Devices

Process management technology constitutes a crucial component of service-oriented environments as it facilitates the composition of services at design time and their orchestration at run time. In this context, high flexibility is required as business functions must be quickly adaptable to cope with dynamic changes in the business. The tremendous proliferation of smart mobile devices over the last years has fostered their prevalence in knowledge-intensive areas. As a result, it is frequently demanded to enhance process-aware information systems with mobile activity support. The latter constitutes process activities (i.e., single process steps) to be executed on smart mobile devices. In general, the technical integration of this activity type with existing process management technology is challenging. If a mobile context shall be additionally considered when executing the activities, the integration gets even more complex. However, the use of such a mobile context offers several advantages. For example, (mobile) activity execution time can be significantly decreased if mobile activities are only assigned to those users whose location is close to the one of the mobile activity. Existing research approaches mainly focus on the partitioning of processes and the distributed execution of the resulting fragments on smart mobile devices. Opposed to this fragmentation concept, this paper proposes an approach to enable the robust and flexible execution of single process activities on smart mobile devices.

scholarly journals Extracting business vocabularies from business process models: SBVR and BPNM standards-based approach

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 1515-1535 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomas Skersys ◽  
Kestutis Kapocius ◽  
Rimantas Butleris ◽  
Tomas Danikauskas
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Business Process ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Systems Development ◽  
Process Models ◽  
Information Systems Development ◽  
Business Modeling ◽  
Business Process Models ◽  
Model Driven

Approaches for the analysis and specification of business vocabularies and rules are relevant topics in both Business Process Management and Information Systems Development disciplines. However, in common practice of Information Systems Development, the Business modeling activities still are of mostly empiric nature. In this paper, aspects of the approach for semi-automatic extraction of business vocabularies (BV) from business process models (BPM) are presented. The approach is based on novel business modeling-level OMG standards ?Business Process Model and Notation? (BPMN) and ?Semantics for Business Vocabularies and Business Rules? (SBVR), thus contributing to OMG?s vision of Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) and to model-driven development in general. The discussed extraction approach is evaluated against fully-automatic BPMN BPM ? SBVR BV transformation that has been developed in parallel to the presented work.

Using Agent and Workflow Technologies for the Implementation of Interoperable Healthcare Information Systems

2013 ◽  
pp. 211-231
Author(s):  
Vassiliki Koufi ◽  
Flora Malamateniou ◽  
George Vassilacopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
System Architecture ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Service Oriented Architecture ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Healthcare Information ◽  
Healthcare Information Systems ◽  
Server Side ◽  
Geographically Dispersed ◽  
High Flexibility

Healthcare is an increasingly collaborative enterprise involving many individuals and organizations that coordinate their efforts toward promoting quality and efficient delivery of healthcare through the use of interoperable healthcare information systems (HIS). Service-oriented architecture (SOA) provides a cost-effective solution to implementing interoperability between heterogeneous HIS which have resulted from extensive investments that most healthcare organizations have made in system resources over the course of many years. However, issues of semantic interoperability still remain unresolved while new challenges arise regarding web service interoperability. This chapter presents a mediator-based approach for achieving data and service interoperability among disparate and geographically dispersed HIS. The proposed system architecture provides a uniform interface to the underlying HIS, thus enabling decoupling of the client applications and the server-side implementations while it ensures security in all transactions. It is a distributed system architecture based on the agent paradigm for both healthcare process management and management of interactions among the participating systems. The healthcare processes and all interactions involved in each process are described according to the workflow metaphor. Thus, robustness, high flexibility and fault tolerance are provided in an environment as dynamic and heterogeneous as healthcare.

Extending Business Processes with Mobile Task Support

2016 ◽  
pp. 273-304
Author(s):  
Rüdiger Pryss ◽  
Steffen Musiol ◽  
Manfred Reichert
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Enterprise Information ◽  
Task Support ◽  
Management Technology ◽  
Knowledge Intensive ◽  
Smart Mobile ◽  
Mobile Task ◽  
Smart Mobile Devices

Process management technology constitutes a fundamental component of any service-driven computing environment. Process management facilitates both the composition of services at design-time and their orchestration at runtime. In particular, when applying the service paradigm to enterprise integration, high flexibility is required. In this context, atomic as well as composite services representing the business functions should be quickly adaptable to cope with dynamic business changes. Furthermore, they should enable mobile and quick access to enterprise information. The growing maturity of smart mobile devices has fostered their prevalence in knowledge-intensive areas in the enterprise as well. As a consequence, process management technology needs to be extended with mobile task support. However, process tasks, hitherto executed in a stationary manner, cannot be simply transferred to run on smart mobile devices. Many research groups focus on the partitioning of processes and the distributed execution of the resulting fragments on smart mobile devices. Opposed to this fragmentation concept, this chapter proposes an approach to enable the robust and flexible execution of single process tasks on smart mobile devices by provisioning self-healing techniques to address the smooth integration of mobile tasks with business processes.

Extending Business Processes with Mobile Task Support

2014 ◽  
pp. 103-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rüdiger Pryss ◽  
Steffen Musiol ◽  
Manfred Reichert
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Enterprise Information ◽  
Task Support ◽  
Management Technology ◽  
Knowledge Intensive ◽  
Smart Mobile ◽  
Mobile Task ◽  
Smart Mobile Devices

Process management technology constitutes a fundamental component of any service-driven computing environment. Process management facilitates both the composition of services at design-time and their orchestration at runtime. In particular, when applying the service paradigm to enterprise integration, high flexibility is required. In this context, atomic as well as composite services representing the business functions should be quickly adaptable to cope with dynamic business changes. Furthermore, they should enable mobile and quick access to enterprise information. The growing maturity of smart mobile devices has fostered their prevalence in knowledge-intensive areas in the enterprise as well. As a consequence, process management technology needs to be extended with mobile task support. However, process tasks, hitherto executed in a stationary manner, cannot be simply transferred to run on smart mobile devices. Many research groups focus on the partitioning of processes and the distributed execution of the resulting fragments on smart mobile devices. Opposed to this fragmentation concept, this chapter proposes an approach to enable the robust and flexible execution of single process tasks on smart mobile devices by provisioning self-healing techniques to address the smooth integration of mobile tasks with business processes.

scholarly journals The Role of Industry 4.0 and BPMN in the Arise of Condition-Based and Predictive Maintenance: A Case Study in the Automotive Industry

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 3438
Author(s):  
Jorge Fernandes ◽  
João Reis ◽  
Nuno Melão ◽  
Leonor Teixeira ◽  
Marlene Amorim
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Automotive Industry ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Business Process Management ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Predictive Maintenance ◽  
The Evolution Of Industry

This article addresses the evolution of Industry 4.0 (I4.0) in the automotive industry, exploring its contribution to a shift in the maintenance paradigm. To this end, we firstly present the concepts of predictive maintenance (PdM), condition-based maintenance (CBM), and their applications to increase awareness of why and how these concepts are revolutionizing the automotive industry. Then, we introduce the business process management (BPM) and business process model and notation (BPMN) methodologies, as well as their relationship with maintenance. Finally, we present the case study of the Renault Cacia, which is developing and implementing the concepts mentioned above.

Approach to system functional requirements extraction and methods for its implementation based on the design of user activities in the interface using architectural schemes

2021 ◽  
pp. 100-105
Author(s):  
A.N. Belikov ◽  
◽  
S.A. Belikova
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Main Idea ◽  
Direct Interaction ◽  
Functional Requirements ◽  
End User ◽  
System Developer ◽  
Statistical Studies

The existing approach to requirements extraction is that the requirements are formed by the system developer through direct interaction with the customer using a number of methods (for example, interviewing; prototyping; analysis of use cases; user stories; seminars, etc.). In this case, most often the requirements are formed by the developer himself, taking into account the opinion of the customer’s representative. The disadvantage of the existing approach is the problem of loss of knowledge transferred from the customer’s representatives to the developer, which results in the failure of projects, which is recorded by the existing statistics. As statistical studies show, more than half of projects for the creation of information systems (IS) are failures or require changes (in terms of budget, time and customer satisfaction). In modern research in the field of__ design and development of information systems, there is a tendency to involve the end user (customer) in the design process. To develop this idea, an approach is proposed to involve the user in the process of extracting requirements, where the developer will no longer be the person forming the requirements. The main idea of the approach is to develop special tools that allow you to independently transform the customer’s natural language into such a form of representation of the model of the process of solving professional problems, from which an interface will be built, which will allow extracting functional requirements from the unity (process model and interface).

scholarly journals Mobile Geographic Information Systems

2012 ◽  
pp. 230-253
Author(s):  
Yang Li ◽  
Allan J. Brimicombe
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Geographical Information Systems ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Smart Phones ◽  
Geographical Information ◽  
Location Awareness ◽  
Mobile Telecommunication ◽  
Mobile Gis ◽  
Wireless Mobile

This chapter introduces the concept of Mobile Geographical Information Systems (Mobile GIS) as an evolution of conventional GIS to being available on wireless mobile devices such as smart phones. The evolution of the technology and its applications are charted in this chapter. The main elements of Mobile GIS are then discussed. This focuses on: GIS servers; wireless mobile telecommunication networks; wireless mobile devices; location-awareness technology; and gateway services. This is followed by a discussion of the main features in terms of the services and usage of Mobile GIS: mobility; real-time connectivity; location-awareness; broadened usage. Mobile Geographical Information Systems are an important facilitating technology for Location-Based Services (LBS). A range of applications of Mobile GIS for smart phones are described. The chapter closes with a discussion of the prospects and challenges for Mobile GIS. Challenges derive from four broad areas: limitations that derive from the technologies being used; areas of GIScience that still need to be adequately researched; users; and business models for a sustainable presence.

scholarly journals El impacto de la automatización en el mejoramiento de procesos

SATHIRI ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 249
Author(s):  
Alex Bolívar Cazañas Gordón ◽  
Esther María Parra Mora
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Management System ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Business Process Management ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Business Process Model

Esta investigación tiene la intención de evaluar el efecto de la automatización en el desempeño de los procesos de una empresa de servicios. Para tal efecto, se analiza los resultados de la automatización de un proceso clave de negocio en un proveedor de servicios de telecomunicaciones. La automatización implementada toma como referencia el ciclo de vida descrito por la metodología BPM (Business Process Management), el cual se compone de cuatro fases: Modelamiento, implementación, ejecución, y análisis. Para la modelación del proceso se utilizó la notación definida en el estándar Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN). La automatización se implementó usando un paquete de herramientas informáticas comercial del tipo BPMS (Business Process Management System).

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