scholarly journals An Approach to Participatory Business Process Modeling: BPMN Model Generation Using Constraint Programming and Graph Composition

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 1428 ◽  
Author(s):  
Piotr Wiśniewski ◽  
Krzysztof Kluza ◽  
Antoni Ligęza
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Process Modeling ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Automatic Generation ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Process Models ◽  
Business Cases ◽  
Log File ◽  
User Friendly

Designing business process models plays a vital role in business process management. The acquisition of such models may consume up to 60% of the project time. This time can be shortened using methods for the automatic or semi-automatic generation of process models. In this paper, we present a user-friendly method of business process composition. It uses a set of predefined constraints to generate a synthetic log of the process based on a simplified, unordered specification, which describes activities to be performed. Such a log can be used to generate a correct BPMN model. To achieve this, we propose the use of one of the existing process discovery algorithms or executing the activity graph-based composition algorithm, which generates the process model directly from the input log file. The proposed approach allows process participants to take part in process modeling. Moreover, it can be a support for business analysts or process designers in visualizing the workflow without the necessity to design the model explicitly in a graphical editor. The BPMN diagram is generated as an interchangeable XML file, which allows its further modification and adjustment. The included comparative analysis shows that our method is capable of generating process models characterized by high flow complexity and can support BPMN constructs, which are sufficient for about 70% of business cases.

Lost in Business Process Model Translations

2011 ◽  
pp. 227-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Recker ◽  
Jan Mendling
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Business Process ◽  
Process Modeling ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Process Models ◽  
Modeling Languages ◽  
Seamless Integration ◽  
Complementary Nature

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.

Process Modeling for Holistic Process Management

2011 ◽  
pp. 49-68
Author(s):  
Stefan Jablonski
Keyword(s):  
Process Modeling ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Main Idea ◽  
Process Models ◽  
Specific Process ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
Modeling Approach ◽  
Holistic Process ◽  
User Friendly

This chapter presents a process modeling approach for holistic process management. The main idea is that domain specific process models are required both to capture the contents of a process based application and to present a process model in a user friendly way. We presents how perspective oriented process modeling supports domain specific process model. Besides we describe how this approach can be implemented by applying a multi level meta modeling approach.

scholarly journals Dynamic Adaptation Method of Business Process Based on Hierarchical Feature Model

Information ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 362
Author(s):  
Le Zhang ◽  
Qi Gao ◽  
Tingyu Li
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Feature Model ◽  
Dynamic Adaptation ◽  
Business Policy ◽  
Business Application ◽  
Adaptation Method

With the continuous complexity and frequent changes in business application scenarios, companies urgently need to establish a flexible business process management mechanism that includes dynamic rules, in which dynamic adaptation methods of business processes play a vital role. Aiming at the problem that the current methods only use the preset process template and the decision-making database, it cannot respond quickly to business changes and reconfigure the business process. This research proposes a dynamic adaptation method of business process based on the hierarchical feature model, builds a hierarchical feature model of complex processes, then establishes a hierarchical business policy set to achieve an agile response to business emergencies. By constructing a mapping model, the feature model is associated with the BPMN model to realize the rapid execution of the reconfiguration process model. The feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed method are verified by process examples and the developed business process dynamic adaptation tool.

Ontology-Based Framework for Quality in Configurable Process Models

2020 ◽  
pp. 464-478
Author(s):  
Loubna El Faquih ◽  
Mounia Fredj
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Process Modeling ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Process Models ◽  
Novel Method ◽  
Ontology Languages ◽  
Variability Management

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.

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.

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.

Power Transmission Analysis in Wireless Sensor Networks Using Data Aggregation Techniques

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 37-53
Author(s):  
Hradesh Kumar ◽  
Pradeep Kumar Singh
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Power Transmission ◽  
Process Models ◽  
Model Matching ◽  
Matching Process ◽  
Effective Manner ◽  
Aggregation Techniques ◽  
Using Data

The process model matching is a critical step in many business process management activities. Process model matching consists of finding correspondences between activities of process models. This article presents a method for matching process model. The proposed method matches (i.e., aligns) two process models in three sequential steps. First, activities in the two process models are extracted. Second, the extracted activities are expanded using synonyms, hypernyms, and hyponyms of its composing words. These synonyms, hypernyms, and hyponyms are extracted from the WordNet thesaurus. Third, the expanded activities are compared using the Monge-Elkan similarity metric to detect matches. An empirical study was conducted on three well known datasets to evaluate the proposed method. The results of the experiment showed that the proposed method has the potential to match business process models in an effective manner when step two of the method is based on synonyms and hypernyms.

Ownership relevance in aspect-oriented business process models

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 566-593 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julio Cesar Sampaio do Prado Leite ◽  
Flavia Maria Santoro ◽  
Claudia Cappelli ◽  
Thais Vasconcelos Batista ◽  
Fabiana Jack Nogueira Santos
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Process Modeling ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Business Process Modeling ◽  
Process Models ◽  
Actor Model ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Business Process Modeling Notation ◽  
Representation Scheme

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose a representation scheme based on the i* strategic actor model to represent the process owner information and show how to incorporate this approach into the event driven process chain and Business Process Modeling Notation-BPMN meta-models and also into the aspect-oriented business process modeling (BPM) context. Design/methodology/approach – The authors use a case study in a real setting to evaluate the proposal and a controlled experiment to get more evidence about its relevance. Findings – The authors presented evidence both from a case study in a real-world library showing the importance of representing – previously unavailable – process owner information, and from an experiment which involved participants analyzing the same models of the case study, confirming the preliminary evidences. It is important to stress the recognition that the proposed representation provided more transparency, in terms of ownership, than the usual BPM models. These benefits are due to the combination of the aspect-oriented approach and the strategic actor model, providing ownership information in a more transparent way. Originality/value – The authors not only argue the importance of clearly established process ownership, both of the core process and the aspectual process, but also the authors presented an approach to represent the actor involved in process and aspect ownership as an instantiation of the i* strategic actor. Using this approach, the process owner can be defined in terms of actors instead of the activities performed. It is also possible to define the aspect owner and to include the aspectual process concept in the business process model.

scholarly journals Improvement of Business-Activities in Telecommunication Enterprises by the eTOM Business-Process Structural Model Implementation

2010 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-50
Author(s):  
Olga Korzachenko ◽  
Vadim Getman
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Structural Model ◽  
Foreign Market ◽  
Process Models ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Telecommunication Companies ◽  
High Level

Improvement of Business-Activities in Telecommunication Enterprises by the eTOM Business-Process Structural Model Implementation For now, in front of telecommunication branch enterprises of Ukraine, there is a problem of activity improvement with the purpose of granting high-quality services and maintenance of competitive position, both on internal, and on a foreign market. To solve this problem, telecommunication companies appropriate to use the mechanisms of business-oriented process management and improvement of end-to-end business-processes. The purpose of this article is a choice of effective business-process model that will allow telecommunications companies to provide modern, high quality and cost competitive services. During research, conditions of the telecommunication branch enterprises of Ukraine were investigated and key problems of their activity were revealed. Existing business-process models have been considered and analyzed and the optimal model was chosen, according to the put criteria. By results of the analysis a conclusion was drawn, that to the enterprises for business-process modeling is expedient for using eTOM - high-level system business-oriented model aimed for providing of any technological services, including IT. As advantages from introduction eTOM at the Ukrainian enterprises were analyzed.

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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