scholarly journals Real-time repair of business processes based on alternative operations in case of uncertainty

IEEE Access ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
Liwen Zhang ◽  
Xianwen Fang ◽  
Chifeng Shao ◽  
Lili Wang
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Alternative Operations

scholarly journals Real-time risk monitoring in business processes: A sensor-based approach

2013 ◽  
Vol 86 (11) ◽  
pp. 2939-2965 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raffaele Conforti ◽  
Marcello La Rosa ◽  
Giancarlo Fortino ◽  
Arthur H.M. ter Hofstede ◽  
Jan Recker ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Risk Monitoring

scholarly journals Adaptive business rules framework for workflow management

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (5) ◽  
pp. 948-971
Author(s):  
Kanana Ezekiel ◽  
Vassil Vassilev ◽  
Karim Ouazzane ◽  
Yogesh Patel
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Business Process ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Object Oriented ◽  
Process Modelling ◽  
Semantic Indexing ◽  
Business Rules ◽  
Business Process Modelling ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Content Type

Purpose Changing scattered and dynamic business rules in business workflow systems has become a growing problem that hinders the use and configuration of workflow-based applications. There is a gap in the existing research studies which currently focus on solutions that are application specific, without accounting for the universal logical dependencies between the business rules and, as a result, do not support adaptation of the business rules in real time. The paper aims to discuss this issue. Design/methodology/approach To tackle the above problems, this paper adopts a bottom-up approach, which puts forward a component model of the business process workflows and then adds business rules which have clear logical semantics. This allows incremental development of the workflows and semantic indexing of the rules which govern them during the initial acquisition. Findings The paper introduces an event-driven model for development of business workflows which is purely logic-based and can be easily implemented using an object-oriented technology, together with a model of the business rules dependencies which supports incremental semantic indexing. It also proposes a two-level inference mechanism as a vehicle for controlling the business process execution and the process of adaptation of the business rules at real time based on propagating the dependencies. Research limitations/implications The framework is strictly logical and completely domain-independent. It allows to account both synchronous and asynchronous triggering events as well as both qualitative and quantitative description of the conditions of the rules. Although our primary interest is to apply the framework to the business processes typical in the construction industry we believe our approach has much wider potential due to its strictly logical formalization and domain independence. In fact it can be used to control any business processes where the execution is governed by rules. Practical implications The framework could be applied to both large business process modelling tasks and small but very dynamic business processes like the typical digital business processes found in online banking or e-Commerce. For example, it can be used for adjusting security policies by adding the capability to adapt automatically the access rights to account for additional resources and new channels of operation which can be very interesting ion both B2C and B2B applications. Social implications The potential scope of the impact of the research reported here is linked to the wide applicability of rule-based systems in business. Our approach makes it possible not only to control the execution of the processes, but also to identify problems in the control policies themselves from the point of view of their logical properties – consistency, redundancies and potential gaps in the logics. In addition to this, our approach not only increases the efficiency, but also provides flexibility for adaptation of the policies in real time and increases the security of the overall control which improves the overall quality of the automation. Originality/value The major achievement reported in this paper is the construction of a universal, strictly logic-based event-driven framework for business process modelling and control, which allows purely logical analysis and adaptation of the business rules governing the business workflows through accounting their dependencies. An added value is the support for object-oriented implementation and the incremental indexing which has been possible thanks to the bottom-up approach adopted in the construction of the framework.

The Evaluation of Business Performance in ERP Environments

2018 ◽  
pp. 633-641
Author(s):  
Vicky Manthou ◽  
Constantinos J. Stefanou ◽  
Kalliopi Tigka
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Business Performance ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Erp Systems ◽  
Performance Dimensions ◽  
Real Time Information ◽  
Time Information

ERP systems, supporting and integrating all business processes across functions and offering real time information necessary for taking actions and making decisions, have prevailed in most enterprises worldwide. The costs involved in ERP implementations may be huge and must be justified by the outcomes. However, extant research has reported mixed and in some cases controversial results. In this chapter, certain important dimensions of ERP systems and of business performance are discussed. The chapter has an educational focus and aims at providing an exploration of ERP system's impact on certain business performance dimensions, informing thus scholars, practitioners and students of the issues involved and the areas they should pay attention when considering ERP implementations. Following an extensive literature review, a classification of diverse studies according to their research focus is provided, which reveals the range of business performance dimensions and can help researchers in their future projects.

Processes

2019 ◽  
pp. 131-167
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Business Process ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Enterprise Architecture ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Business Service ◽  
Architecture Model ◽  
Service Basis ◽  
Process Architecture

The implementation of several modern concepts of enterprise architecture creation is analyzed and real-time business process generation is described. Cloud-based self-generated business service is constructed as a basis of the resulting concept with an aim to increase the flexibility of enterprise and introduce AaaS (architecture as a service). Under particular business request in form of correctly formulated strategic goal the generation of business process model is produced. The result of the generation is cross-cutting business process architecture model, which is approved or rejected/corrected by business owner expertise. During generation all necessary requirements for supporting resources, such as information, know-how, intellectual and professional skills, inputs and outputs, quality and operational risk limitations, control and monitoring, are formed. All formed requirements have to be satisfied by appropriate selections from the cloud facilities and again approved. Finally, after several iterations, the business model will be able to be realized in reality and could be executed with predicted results. Briefly, that means that certain sets of valued and weighted business process replicas are located in clouds and served in clouds. Thus, enterprise architecture becomes a regular service from clouds extending row of SOA in the name of AaaS. In addition, the advanced view on the topic is provided with an attempt to install a virtual SOA torrent that catches services from the internet and makes them available to customers and represents a business service basis for real-time business processes.

Testing Guidelines for Developing Quality EAI Projects

2011 ◽  
pp. 279-291
Author(s):  
S.R. Balasundaram ◽  
B. Ramadoss
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Enterprise Application Integration ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Time Data ◽  
Enterprise Application ◽  
Business Environments ◽  
Business Applications ◽  
Real Time Data ◽  
New Generation

The rapidly changing nature of business environments requires organizations to be more flexible to gain competitive advantages. Organizations are turning into a new generation of software called Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) to fully integrate business processes. It is an activity that integrates and harmonizes an enterprise’s isolated business applications, processes and functions involving real time data. Developing quality EAI projects is quite a big challenge. Even though success of EAI projects depends on so many parameters, ‘testing’ is the most significant phase that can ensure the quality as well as the success of EAI projects. Components integrated without testing in EAI systems may affect the enterprise system as a whole. This chapter focuses on the testing aspects related to EAI applications. Especially the significance of testing for various types of “Integrations” is discussed in detail.

The Data Imperative

2020 ◽  
pp. 19-43
Author(s):  
Henri Schildt
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
Information Flows ◽  
End Point ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation ◽  
And Control

This chapter examines digitalization as a set of new normative ideals for managing and organizing businesses, enabled by new technologies. The data imperative consists of two mutually reinforcing goals: the pursuit of omniscience—the aspiration of management to capture the world relevant to the company through digital data; and the pursuit of omnipotence—an aspiration of managers to control and optimize activities in real-time and around the world through software. The data imperative model captures a self-reinforcing cycle of four sequential steps: (1) the creation and capture of data, (2) the combination and analysis of data, (3) the redesign of business processes around smart algorithms, and (4) the ability to control the world through digital information flows. The logical end-point of the data imperative is a ‘programmable world’, a conception of society saturated with Internet-connected hardware that is able to capture processes in real time and control them in order to optimize desired outcomes.

The Evaluation of Business Performance in ERP Environments

2016 ◽  
pp. 88-96
Author(s):  
Vicky Manthou ◽  
Constantinos J. Stefanou ◽  
Kalliopi Tigka
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Business Performance ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Erp Systems ◽  
Performance Dimensions ◽  
Real Time Information ◽  
Time Information

ERP systems, supporting and integrating all business processes across functions and offering real time information necessary for taking actions and making decisions, have prevailed in most enterprises worldwide. The costs involved in ERP implementations may be huge and must be justified by the outcomes. However, extant research has reported mixed and in some cases controversial results. In this chapter, certain important dimensions of ERP systems and of business performance are discussed. The chapter has an educational focus and aims at providing an exploration of ERP system's impact on certain business performance dimensions, informing thus scholars, practitioners and students of the issues involved and the areas they should pay attention when considering ERP implementations. Following an extensive literature review, a classification of diverse studies according to their research focus is provided, which reveals the range of business performance dimensions and can help researchers in their future projects.

Service Discovery

2011 ◽  
pp. 107-127
Author(s):  
Gerhard Austaller
Keyword(s):  
Web Services ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Service Provider ◽  
Service Discovery ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Software Component ◽  
Service Oriented Architectures ◽  
Network Connection ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
The Moment

The chapter “Ubiquitous Services and Business Processes” discussed the benefits for real time enterprises of service oriented architectures (SOA) in terms of reusability and flexibility. Web services are one incarnation of SOA. This chapter gives a brief introduction to SOA. It discusses the attributes that define SOA, the roles of the participants in a service oriented environment. The essence of SOA is that clients use services offered by a service provider to get a task done. For the moment we simplify service to “a software component with network connection”. Services are offered with a description at wellknown “places” (also called registries, repositories), where clients choose services according to their needs. The chapter discusses several approaches to describe services and to look for them. Moreover, some well-known systems, and also current research, are discussed.

Integrated Business and Production Process Data Warehousing

2011 ◽  
pp. 88-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dirk Draheim ◽  
Oscar Mangisengi
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Business Process ◽  
Production Efficiency ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Workflow Management ◽  
Numerical Control ◽  
Data Resource ◽  
Key Performance Indication ◽  
Resource Data

Nowadays tracking data from activity checkpoints of unit transactions within an organization’s business processes becomes an important data resource for business analysts and decision-makers to provide essential strategic and tactical business information. In the context of business process-oriented solutions, business-activity monitoring (BAM) architecture has been predicted as a major issue in the near future of the business-intelligence area. On the other hand, there is a huge potential for optimization of processes in today’s industrial manufacturing. Important targets of improvement are production efficiency and product quality. Optimization is a complex task. A plethora of data that stems from numerical control and monitoring systems must be accessed, correlations in the information must be recognized, and rules that lead to improvement must be identified. In this chapter we envision the vertical integration of technical processes and control data with business processes and enterprise resource data. As concrete steps, we derive an activity warehouse model based on BAM requirements. We analyze different perspectives based on the requirements, such as business process management, key performance indication, process and state based-workflow management, and macro- and micro-level data. As a concrete outcome we define a meta-model for business processes with respect to monitoring. The implementation shows that data stored in an activity warehouse is able to efficiently monitor business processes in real-time and provides a better real-time visibility of business processes.

scholarly journals Towards a real-time business processes validation algorithm

2019 ◽  
Vol 148 ◽  
pp. 580-589 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asma Ouarhim ◽  
Karim Baïna
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Business Processes
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