Automated Planning of Process Models

2011 ◽  
pp. 169-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernd Heinrich ◽  
Mathias Klier ◽  
Steffen Zimmermann
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Process Modeling ◽  
Financial Services ◽  
Business Process Management ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Automated Planning ◽  
Process Models ◽  
Control Structures ◽  
Manual Task ◽  
Novel Approach

Companies need to adapt their processes quickly in order to react to changing customer demands or new regulations, for example. Process models are an appropriate means to support process setup but currently the (re)design of process models is a time-consuming manual task. Semantic Business Process Management, in combination with planning approaches, can alleviate this drawback. This means that the workload of (manual) process modeling could be reduced by constructing models in an automated way. Since existing, traditional planning algorithms show drawbacks for the application in Semantic Business Process Management, we introduce a novel approach that is suitable especially for the Semantic-based Planning of process models. In this chapter, we focus on the semantic reasoning, which is necessary in order to construct control structures, such as decision nodes, which are vital elements of process models. We illustrate our approach by a running example taken from the financial services domain. Moreover, we demonstrate its applicability by a prototype and provide some insights into the evaluation of our approach.

Foundations of Business Process Modeling

2010 ◽  
pp. 6-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Mendling
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Business Process ◽  
Process Modeling ◽  
Business Process Management ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Business Process Modeling ◽  
General Information ◽  
Process Models ◽  
Business Process Execution

This chapter provides an overview of business process management and business process modeling. We approach business process management by giving a historical classification of seminal work, and define it by the help of the business process management life cycle. Business process models play an important role in this life cycle, in particular, if information systems are used for executing processes. We deduct a definition for business process modeling based on a discussion of modeling from a general information systems point of view. In the following, we detail business process modeling techniques, in particular, modeling languages and modeling procedures for business process modeling. Finally, we discuss some future trends with a focus on the business process execution language for Web services (BPEL), and conclude the chapter with a summary. The chapter aims to cover business process modeling in a comprehensive way such that academics and practitioners can use it as a reference for identifying more specialized works.

Foundations of Business Process Modeling

2009 ◽  
pp. 189-222
Author(s):  
Jan Mendling
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Business Process ◽  
Process Modeling ◽  
Business Process Management ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Business Process Modeling ◽  
General Information ◽  
Process Models ◽  
Business Process Execution

This chapter provides an overview of business process management and business process modeling. We approach business process management by giving a historical classification of seminal work, and define it by the help of the business process management life cycle. Business process models play an important role in this life cycle, in particular, if information systems are used for executing processes. We deduct a definition for business process modeling based on a discussion of modeling from a general information systems point of view. In the following, we detail business process modeling techniques, in particular, modeling languages and modeling procedures for business process modeling. Finally, we discuss some future trends with a focus on the business process execution language for Web services (BPEL), and conclude the chapter with a summary. The chapter aims to cover business process modeling in a comprehensive way such that academics and practitioners can use it as a reference for identifying more specialized works.

A Survey of Risk-Aware Business Process Modelling

2020 ◽  
pp. 1004-1016
Author(s):  
Hanane Lhannaoui ◽  
Mohammed Issam Kabbaj ◽  
Zohra Bakkoury
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Business Process Management ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Process Modelling ◽  
Process Models ◽  
Business Process Modelling ◽  
Business Process Models ◽  
Related Information

For organizations, risk is a key concept when dealing with business process. Integrating risks aspects during business process management starts with an accurate consideration of risk's characteristics in the modelling phase. Most research is needed on integrating risk and business process modelling. Actually, the literature suggests various approaches to represent risk-related information in business process models. The diversity of those methods and the fact that this domain is still emerging make it difficult to choose the most suitable language. This paper aims to represent a survey of the existing risk-annotated business process model's notations.

Business Process Management and Six Sigma

2012 ◽  
pp. 74-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suresh Subramoniam ◽  
Venky Shankararaman ◽  
K. V. Krishnankutty ◽  
Ravi Chinta
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Six Sigma ◽  
Financial Services ◽  
Business Process Management ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Incremental Improvement ◽  
Key Features ◽  
Six Sigma Methodology ◽  
Time Basis ◽  
Synergistic Relationship

In this chapter, the authors establish the existence of a synergistic relationship between two complementary methodologies, Business Process Management (BPM) and Six Sigma, through literature review and suggest methods to exploit the same. Six Sigma provides incremental improvement through its analytical abilities and is complemented by BPM which provides the data from the ongoing processes on a real time basis. The authors discuss two perspectives on how to synergize these methodologies. Firstly, achieve hybrid BPM-Six Sigma by substituting Improve and Manage steps of BPM with the DMAIC of Six Sigma methodology. Secondly, utilize Six Sigma methodology for analysis on data generated by BPM. The application of the integration of BPM and Six Sigma is presented through case studies from financial services companies. The authors also present the key features of BPM tools that can assist Six Sigma in every phase of its implementation.

A Survey of Risk-Aware Business Process Modelling

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 14-26
Author(s):  
Hanane Lhannaoui ◽  
Mohammed Issam Kabbaj ◽  
Zohra Bakkoury
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Business Process Management ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Process Modelling ◽  
Process Models ◽  
Business Process Modelling ◽  
Business Process Models ◽  
Related Information

For organizations, risk is a key concept when dealing with business process. Integrating risks aspects during business process management starts with an accurate consideration of risk's characteristics in the modelling phase. Most research is needed on integrating risk and business process modelling. Actually, the literature suggests various approaches to represent risk-related information in business process models. The diversity of those methods and the fact that this domain is still emerging make it difficult to choose the most suitable language. This paper aims to represent a survey of the existing risk-annotated business process model's notations.

Improving Effectiveness of Process Model Matchers Using Wordnet Glosses

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Mostefai Abdelkader
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Business Process Management ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Cosine Similarity ◽  
Process Models ◽  
Model Matching ◽  
Similarity Metric

Process model matching is a key activity in many business process management tasks. It is an activity that consists of detecting an alignment between process models by finding similar activities in two process models. This article proposes a method based on WordNet glosses to improve the effectiveness of process model matchers. The proposed method is composed of three steps. In the first step, all activities of the two BPs are extracted. Second, activity labels are expanded using word glosses and finally, similar activities are detected using the cosine similarity metric. Two experiments were conducted on well-known datasets to validate the effectiveness of the proposed approach. In the first one, an alignment is computed using the cosine similarity metric only and without a process of expansion. While, in the second experiment, the cosine similarity metric is applied to the expanded activities using glosses. The results of the experiments were promising and show that expanding activities using WordNet glosses improves the effectiveness of process model matchers.

Business process modeling, implementation, analysis, and management: the case of business process management tools

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Behjat Zuhaira ◽  
Naveed Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Process Modeling ◽  
Business Process Management ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Software Tools ◽  
Process Reengineering ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Tool Selection ◽  
Content Type

PurposeSignificant numbers of business process management (BPM) projects fail. Their failure is attributed toward many factors. Among them, low quality of BPM is one reason. Some of the tasks in BPM have their roots in business process reengineering (BPR). The literature has cited many different critical success and failure factors for quality BPM and BPR. Lack of software tools is one of the technology-oriented factors that results in poor BPM and BPR. This paper aims to build a generic feature set offered by software tools for process modeling their analysis implementation and management. It presents an objective analysis in identifying weaknesses and strengths of these tools, primarily for BPM.Design/methodology/approachA method is proposed to evaluate the quality of process reengineering and management delivered by software tools. It consists of four phases: feature extraction, tool selection, data extraction and tool evaluation.FindingsThe data gathered is quantified to test research hypotheses, the results are statistically significant and highlight multiple areas for future improvements. Moreover, the cluster visualizations created also help to understand the strengths and weaknesses of BPM/BPR tools.Research limitations/implicationsDespite the research approach used, there is a chance of subjectivity when it comes to evaluating different tools.Practical implicationsThe paper includes implications for practitioners and researchers for choosing appropriate software tool for process modeling, analysis, implementation and management, matching their requirements with BPM and BPR. It also identifies features that are missing in these tools.Originality/valueThis paper provides a comprehensive analysis of BPM and supporting tools, relates them to key stages of BPM life cycle and BPR methodologies. It also identifies various areas for further development in these tools.

BUSINESS PROCESS MODELING AND WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT

1995 ◽  
Vol 04 (02n03) ◽  
pp. 145-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
VOLKER GRUHN
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Process Modeling ◽  
Business Process Management ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Workflow Management ◽  
Business Process Modeling ◽  
Activity Modeling ◽  
Organization Modeling ◽  
Activity Models

Most of today’s approaches to business process engineering (also called business process management) start from an activity-centered perspective. They describe activities to be carried out within a business process and their relationships, but they usually pay little attention to the objects manipulated within processes. In this article, we discuss an approach to business process modeling, model analysis, and business process enaction (also called workflow management) which is based on data modeling, activity modeling, and organization modeling. In fact, the ℒeu approach to business process management considers data models (describing types of objects to be manipulated in a business process and their relationships), activity models (describing activities to be carried out in a business process), and organization models (describing organizational entities involved in a business process) as separate, but equally important, facets of business processes.

Analysis of Suspected Change Domain Based on Merged Model

2014 ◽  
Vol 556-562 ◽  
pp. 4124-4127
Author(s):  
Zhao Juan ◽  
Xian Wen Fang ◽  
Xiang Wei Liu
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Analysis ◽  
Business Process ◽  
Business Process Management ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Process Models ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Large Complex ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
Complex Models ◽  
Behavior Profile

Analysis of suspected change domain has become the key problems in the area of business process management. But when input models are large complex process models, existing methods have obvious limitations. An analysis method of the change region based on merged Petri model in the paper. Firstly, several complex models are merged into a model with identifiers. Then, an algorithm for extracting the digest from the merged model is given, and the changes are optimized based on module behavior profile. Finally, the suspected changes are analyzed by the traceability of the merged model. The theoretical analysis and specific example show the method is effective.

scholarly journals Business Process Management: A Comprehensive Survey

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wil M. P. van der Aalst
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Business Process Management ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Cost Savings ◽  
Process Models ◽  
Fundamental Process ◽  
Comprehensive Survey

Business Process Management (BPM) research resulted in a plethora of methods, techniques, and tools to support the design, enactment, management, and analysis of operational business processes. This survey aims to structure these results and provide an overview of the state-of-the-art in BPM. In BPM the concept of a process model is fundamental. Process models may be used to configure information systems, but may also be used to analyze, understand, and improve the processes they describe. Hence, the introduction of BPM technology has both managerial and technical ramifications and may enable significant productivity improvements, cost savings, and flow-time reductions. The practical relevance of BPM and rapid developments over the last decade justify a comprehensive survey.

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