Business Process Model and Notation

About: Business Process Model and Notation is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 9038 publications have been published within this topic receiving 190712 citations. The topic is also known as: Business Process Modeling Notation & BPMN.

Towards a Process Analysis Approach to Adopt Robotic Process Automation

Abstract: Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is an emerging approach that automates repetitive human tasks using robots. For business processes, RPA refers to configuring software-based robots to do the work previously done by actors in the organizations. RPA offers many benefits including improved business efficiency, increased productivity, data security, reduced cycle time, and improved accuracy while allowing organizations to relieve their employees from repetitive and tedious tasks. However, implementing RPA represents a challenge and organizations must learn to manage RPA adoption to achieve maximum results. This paper aims to help organizations to effectively adopt RPA for automating their business processes. More precisely, it proposes a new method to guide organizations in analyzing their business processes in order to identify the most suitable for RPA. We present the principles underlying our method and the results obtained in the context of key processes from the banking domain.

Automated Certification for Compliant Cloud-based Business Processes

Abstract: A key problem in the deployment of large-scale, reliable cloud computing concerns the difficulty to certify the compliance of business processes operating in the cloud. Standard audit procedures such as SAS-70 and SAS-117 are hard to conduct for cloud-based processes. The paper proposes a novel approach to certify the compliance of business processes with regulatory requirements. The approach translates process models into their corresponding Petri net representations and checks them against requirements also expressed in this formalism. Being based on Petri nets, the approach provides well-founded evidence on adherence and, in case of noncompliance, indicates the possible vulnerabilities.

Visualization of Compliance Violation in Business Process Models

Abstract: Checking for compliance is of major importance in nowadays business. Several approaches have been proposed to address different aspects of compliance checking. One of the important aspects of compliance checking is to ensure that business activities will be executed in a certain order. In a previous work, we have presented a formal approach for efficient compliance checking based on model checking technology. A limitation of that approach and of similar approaches is the lack of explanation about how violations could occur. In this paper we resolve this limitation by exploiting the notion of patterns/anti patterns. Execution ordering compliance rules are expressed as BPMN-Q queries. For each query a set of anti pattern queries is automatically derived and checked against process models as well. When a violation (an anti pattern) finds a match, the violating part of the process is shown to the user.

A framework for service enterprise workflow simulation with multi-agents cooperation

Abstract: Process dynamic modelling for service business is the key technique for Service-Oriented information systems and service business management, and the workflow model of business processes is the core part of service systems. Service business workflow simulation is the prevalent approach to be used for analysis of service business process dynamically. Generic method for service business workflow simulation is based on the discrete event queuing theory, which is lack of flexibility and scalability. In this paper, we propose a service workflow-oriented framework for the process simulation of service businesses using multi-agent cooperation to address the above issues. Social rationality of agent is introduced into the proposed framework. Adopting rationality as one social factor for decision-making strategies, a flexible scheduling for activity instances has been implemented. A system prototype has been developed to validate the proposed simulation framework through a business case study.

Isolating process-level concerns using padus

Abstract: Current workflow languages for web services suffer from poor support for separation of concerns. Aspect-oriented software development is a well-known approach to improve this. In this paper, we present an aspect-oriented extension for the WS-BPEL language that improves on current state-of-the-art by introducing an explicit deployment construct, a richer joinpoint model, and a higher-level pointcut language. In addition, the supporting technology is compatible with existing WS-BPEL engines. Classification. Business process modeling and analysis, processes and service composition.