scholarly journals Enabling Adaptive Process-Aware Information Systems with ADEPT2

2011 ◽  
pp. 173-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manfred Reichert ◽  
Peter Dadam
Keyword(s):  
Process Management ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Dynamic Environments ◽  
Dynamic Processes ◽  
On Demand ◽  
New Business ◽  
Lifecycle Management ◽  
Moving Process ◽  
Generation Technology

In dynamic environments it must be possible to quickly implement new business processes, to enable ad-hoc deviations from the defined business processes on-demand (e.g., by dynamically adding, deleting or moving process activities), and to support dynamic process evolution (i.e., to propagate process schema changes to already running process instances). These fundamental requirements must be met without affecting process consistency and robustness of the process-aware information system. In this chapter the authors describe how these challenges have been addressed in the ADEPT2 process management system. Their overall vision is to provide a next generation technology for the support of dynamic processes, which enables full process lifecycle management and which can be applied to a variety of application domains.

Human-Computer Cloud and Its Applications in E-Tourism

2021 ◽  
pp. 1143-1176
Author(s):  
Andrew Ponomarev ◽  
Nikolay Shilov
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Decision Support ◽  
Resource Management ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Dynamic Environments ◽  
Resource Provisioning ◽  
Cloud Environment ◽  
On Demand ◽  
Building Information ◽  
Developing Area

The chapter addresses two problems that typically arise during the creation of decision support systems that include humans in the information processing workflow, namely, resource management and complexity of decision support in dynamic environments, where it is impossible (or impractical) to implement all possible information processing workflows that can be useful for a decision-maker. The chapter proposes the concept of human-computer cloud, providing typical cloud features (elasticity, on demand resource provisioning) to the applications that require human input (so-called human-based applications) and, on top of resource management functionality, a facility for building information processing workflows for ad hoc tasks in an automated way. The chapter discusses main concepts lying behind the proposed cloud environment, as well as its architecture and some implementation details. It is also shown how the proposed human-computer cloud environment solves information and decision support demands in the dynamic and actively developing area of e-tourism.

A Domain Specific Strategy for Complex Dynamic Processes

2011 ◽  
pp. 1422-1446
Author(s):  
Semih Cetin ◽  
N. Ilker Altintas ◽  
Ozgur Tufekci
Keyword(s):  
Process Management ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Dynamic Processes ◽  
Specific Strategy ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
Complex Processes ◽  
Business Agility ◽  
Business Cases ◽  
Management Techniques ◽  
Traditional Process

This chapter identifies the issues that might create orthogonal complexities for process dynamism, and decouples the components implementing them in a “domain specific” way. Authors believe that traditional process management techniques for modeling and executing the processes still fall short to improve the dynamism of an enterprise. Some of the reasons are: using too “generic” techniques and tools for process management that are not scalable enough for typical business cases, having lack of architectural coverage to manage the tradeoffs between dynamism and other business quality issues, insufficient support for integrating legacy business processes, and unbalanced guidance between “primary” and “supportive” processes. In order to improve the business agility particularly with dynamic processes, effective abstraction and composition techniques are needed for the systematic design of primary and supportive processes in an organization. Authors bring in the “Domain Specific Kit” abstraction as a way to improve the dynamism of complex processes.

Management of Business Processes in Industrial Enterprises from Bulgaria Along the Lines of Balanced Scorecard and QPR Process Designer – Practical Conclusions

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 408
Author(s):  
Petia Slavova
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Balanced Scorecard ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Financial Analysis ◽  
Industrial Enterprises ◽  
New Business ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
New Methodologies

Processes generate results that the company provides to its customers. Customers outcomes and processes are connected in dependable interaction. The capacity of the company to provide results that customers expect, largely depends on how well managers or business analysts design and manage processes. A key factor to ensure sustainable achievement of the organization's business process management in industrial enterprises from Bulgaria, which inevitably requires continuous measurement of their effectiveness. Ideally, the measurement must be linked to high company goals, to ensure that the processes are oriented towards these goals and assessed according to their contribution to achieving them. On the other side, measurements should be used to assess the performance of individual employees involved in the process. In other words, the high efficiency of the steps (taken as synonymous with the activities in the project context and modeling terminology using software tools) of processes should be rewarded. In a time when resources are more intangible, tangible shift as a tool for value creation, financial analysis of business becomes increasingly insufficient for the establishment of adequate assessment and prognosis. The new business reality provokes appearance of new methodologies to improve the management of business processes, and measuring and managing organizational performance.

A Domain Specific Strategy for Complex Dynamic Processes

2010 ◽  
pp. 430-455 ◽  
Author(s):  
Semih Cetin ◽  
N. Ilker Altintas ◽  
Ozgur Tufekci
Keyword(s):  
Process Management ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Dynamic Processes ◽  
Specific Strategy ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
Complex Processes ◽  
Business Agility ◽  
Business Cases ◽  
Management Techniques ◽  
Traditional Process

This chapter identifies the issues that might create orthogonal complexities for process dynamism, and decouples the components implementing them in a “domain specific” way. Authors believe that traditional process management techniques for modeling and executing the processes still fall short to improve the dynamism of an enterprise. Some of the reasons are: using too “generic” techniques and tools for process management that are not scalable enough for typical business cases, having lack of architectural coverage to manage the tradeoffs between dynamism and other business quality issues, insufficient support for integrating legacy business processes, and unbalanced guidance between “primary” and “supportive” processes. In order to improve the business agility particularly with dynamic processes, effective abstraction and composition techniques are needed for the systematic design of primary and supportive processes in an organization. Authors bring in the “Domain Specific Kit” abstraction as a way to improve the dynamism of complex processes.

Human-Computer Cloud and Its Applications in E-Tourism

2020 ◽  
pp. 202-235
Author(s):  
Andrew Ponomarev ◽  
Nikolay Shilov
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Decision Support ◽  
Resource Management ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Dynamic Environments ◽  
Resource Provisioning ◽  
Cloud Environment ◽  
On Demand ◽  
Building Information ◽  
Developing Area

The chapter addresses two problems that typically arise during the creation of decision support systems that include humans in the information processing workflow, namely, resource management and complexity of decision support in dynamic environments, where it is impossible (or impractical) to implement all possible information processing workflows that can be useful for a decision-maker. The chapter proposes the concept of human-computer cloud, providing typical cloud features (elasticity, on demand resource provisioning) to the applications that require human input (so-called human-based applications) and, on top of resource management functionality, a facility for building information processing workflows for ad hoc tasks in an automated way. The chapter discusses main concepts lying behind the proposed cloud environment, as well as its architecture and some implementation details. It is also shown how the proposed human-computer cloud environment solves information and decision support demands in the dynamic and actively developing area of e-tourism.

Developing Enterprise-wide Business Process Management Capability: A Teaching Case from the Financial Sector

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 192-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wasana Bandara ◽  
Charon Abbott ◽  
Paul Mathiesen ◽  
Lara Meyers ◽  
Mindy Nagra
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Business Process Management ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Student Activities ◽  
Teaching Case ◽  
Management Capability ◽  
Management Approaches ◽  
Key Aspects

Continuously managing business processes is globally a high organisational priority. The necessity for organisation-wide process management approaches (as opposed to ad hoc initiatives) is widely recognised. Yet, the required skills and capabilities for such enterprise-wide BPM is a well-known gap, with little resources to date to address this. This teaching case is based on the Bank of Queensland (BOQ—one of the oldest financial institutions in Australia). The narrative provides an overview of a range of Enterprise level business process management (hereafter referred to as ‘E-BPM’) activities that have taken place to date at BOQ to build its E-BPM capability. The teaching case presents how the development of E-BPM capability is a continuous journey which requires applied management and strong governance, and articulates some of the issues encountered when embedding BPM within an organisational structure. Based on the case, a series of student activities pertaining to E-BPM practices covering key aspects of BPM governance, strategic alignment, culture, people, IT, methods, etc., is provided (with model answers). This case is complemented by a rich set of teaching notes, making it a valuable resource that can be easily and directly applied for E-BPM training.

scholarly journals Bridging the Gap between Brazilian Startups and Business Processes – Process Thinking’s Initial Exploratory Case Study

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Magalhaes Magdaleno ◽  
Priscila Engiel ◽  
Rafael Lage Tavares ◽  
Pedro Silveira Pisa ◽  
Renata Mendes Araujo
Keyword(s):  
Process Management ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Exploratory Case Study ◽  
Process Thinking ◽  
Startup Company ◽  
New Business

Startup is a new business segment that has been growing up in the last years. These companies have an innovative spirit and are usually searching for new solutions to real problems that can be transformed into scalable businesses. The majority of these companies are not aware of their processes and how the company need to be organized. For this kind of companies, we propose Process Thinking, an innovative approach that makes the business process management viable in the daily lives of startups. This paper presents the Process Thinking framework, which prescribes 10 main processes that a startup needs and a utility belt to help the startup to organize their processes. We illustrate this proposal through an exploratory case study with a real IT startup company that used a 5-step methodology in an immediate implementation of proposed processes and artifacts. The results indicate a positive impact in the short and medium term strategies and management of the startup. However, these results cannot be generalized to other startups and should be received with caution, since this is an initial exploratory study limited to a single company.

Adaptive Exception Management in Uncertain Environments

2010 ◽  
pp. 232-250
Author(s):  
Mati Golani
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Business Process Management ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Exception Handling ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Uncertain Environments ◽  
Turbulent Environments ◽  
Traditional Approaches

The ability to continuously revise business practices is limited when referring to traditional approaches in business process management systems. However, it is essential to organizations aiming at reducing their costs and increasing their revenues. In turbulent environments, the requirement for rapid and continuous changes to business processes, result in less control over the executed activities. As a consequence, process designers are limited in producing solid, well-validated workflow models. This chapter, reviews common approaches to exception handling, focusing especially on adaptive exception handling and introduces a mechanism that allows a flexible ad-hoc generated exception handling using backtracking and forward stepping at a process instance level. A dynamic approach in this domain is required, and can bolster the ability of a business process management system to deal with unexpected situations and to resolve, in runtime, scenarios in which such resolution both is called for and does not violate any business process constraints.

scholarly journals Collaborative Business Process Management Through a Platform Based on Cloud Computing

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Diego Alejandro Cocconi ◽  
Jorge Marcelo Roa ◽  
Pablo David Villarreal
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Peer Interactions ◽  
Cloud Services ◽  
Collaborative Networks ◽  
It Infrastructure ◽  
On Demand ◽  
Message Exchange ◽  
Decentralized Execution

With the wide adoption of the Internet, organizations establish collaborative networks to execute Collaborative Business Processes (CBPs). Current approaches of Process-Aware Information Systems (PAISs) to implement and execute CBPs have shortcomings: high costs and complexity of IT infrastructure to deploy the PAISs; poor support for organization autonomy, decentralized execution, global view of message exchange, and peer-to-peer interactions; and rigid platforms for generating and deploying PAISs on-demand according to the CBPs agreed in collaborative networks. To overcome these issues, this work proposes a cloud-based platform for the management of CBPs. The platform provides cloud services that enable the generation and deployment on-demand of the PAISs required to implement the agreed CBPs, as well as the execution on-demand of CBPs by fulfilling the abovementioned issues. The use of cloud computing also implies to deal with privacy, elasticity, and portability issues; the platform offers proper approaches to deal with them.

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