Business Process Management
Concepts, Languages, Architectures
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Business Process Management Methodology
This Chapter introduces a methodology for the development of business process applications involving human users. This methodology provides an understanding of the complexity and of the technical and organizat...
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Introduction
This chapter introduces the main concepts used in this book, which includes a definition of business processes and the role of process models. Classifications of business processes are established and differen...
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Relationships Between Change Patterns in Dynamic Event Attributes
Process mining utilizes process execution data to discover and analyse business processes. Event logs represent process execution data, providing information about activities executed in a process instance. In...
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Business Process Modelling Foundation
This chapter presents the foundation of business process modelling by introducing abstraction concepts. It also introduces a way to describe process models and process instances based on fundamental concepts, ...
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Data and Decisions
This chapter covers data in business processes and business decision modelling. The role of data objects in BPMN and their relationships to data models, such as UML class diagrams, are investigated. Once we ha...
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Properties of Business Processes
Properties of business process models are investigated in this chapter. Correct data dependencies within a process are a simple type of correctness property of a business process. With object lifecycle conform...
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Model-Based Recommendations for Next-Best Actions in Knowledge-Intensive Processes
Knowledge-intensive processes are highly flexible and volatile and therefore hard to predict. During the execution of a case, knowledge workers plan their actions to reach their goals based on their expertise ...
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Evolution of Enterprise Systems Architectures
This Chapter looks at business process management from a software systems point of view by investigating the evolution of enterprise systems architectures. The role of business process management systems and t...
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Process Modelling Languages
This Chapter looks at process modelling languages by first discussing control flow patterns. The meaning of these patterns is expressed by properties of process instances using these patterns. A metamodel is u...
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Process Choreographies
This chapter describes the interaction of multiple business processes and, as such, are an important concept for supporting business-to-business collaboration. After introducing high-level choreographies that ...
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Business Process Management Architectures
This Chapter introduces traditional workflow management architectures. Based on a discussion of Web services as the current implementation of service-oriented architectures, Web services composition is discuss...
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Open AccessModel-based decision support for knowledge-intensive processes
Process-aware information systems guide participants through the execution of processes. However, existing systems have limited support for knowledge-intensive processes, which are multi-variant and shaped by ...
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On the Nature of Data in RPA Bots
Robotic process automation (RPA) automates tasks traditionally performed by employees, reducing repetitive and error-prone work. While RPA bot models are based on graphical notations, data, a key component of ...
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Design-Time Support for Fragment-Based Case Management
Modeling business processes can be difficult, especially if they are flexible and the models consist of many interconnected parts. This is the case for hybrid process modeling approaches, such as fragment-base...
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Context-Aware Change Pattern Detection in Event Attributes of Recurring Activities
Process mining bridges the gap between process management and data science by utilizing process execution data to discover and analyse business processes. This data is represented in event logs, where each eve...
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Event Log Generation in MIMIC-IV Research Paper
Public event logs are valuable for process mining research to evaluate process mining artifacts and identify new and promising research directions. Initiatives like the BPI Challenges have provided a series of...
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Beyond Temporal Dependency: An Ontology-Based Approach to Modeling Causal Structures in Business Processes
Causality is an ubiquitous but elusive concept describing the relationship between cause and effect. In the context of business processes, it defines ontological, i.e., existential, and temporal dependencies b...
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Ontology-Based Abstraction of Bot Models in Robotic Process Automation
Robotic Process Automation is a technology for lightweight task automation that empowers business users to build their own software bots by combining predefined operations in a graphical user interface. Howeve...
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Loose Collaborations on the Blockchain: Survey and Challenges
Blockchain technology has emerged as a promising infrastructure for enabling collaboration between mutually distrustful organizations. The enactment of blockchain-based collaborative processes typically requir...
