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Process modeling

About: Process modeling is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 11639 publications have been published within this topic receiving 223996 citations. The topic is also known as: process simulation.


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TL;DR: This article demonstrates how the User Requirements Notation can be used to model business processes and compares this approach to related modeling approaches; namely, use case-driven design, service-oriented architecture analysis, and conceptual value modeling.
Abstract: This article demonstrates how the User Requirements Notation (URN) can be used to model business processes. URN combines goals and scenarios in order to help capture and reason about user requirements prior to detailed design. In terms of application areas, this emerging standard targets reactive systems in general, with a particular focus on telecommunications systems and services. This article argues that the URN also can be applied to business process modeling. To this end, it illustrates the notation, its use, and its benefits with a supply chain management case study. It then briefly compares this approach to related modeling approaches; namely, use case-driven design, service-oriented architecture analysis, and conceptual value modeling. The authors hope that a URN-based approach will provide usable and useful tools to assist researchers and practitioners with the modeling, analysis, integration, and evolution of existing and emerging business processes.

71 citations

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TL;DR: A new application of architecture frameworks (AFs) to development processes is introduced and this area is suggested as one for further research and development in the systems engineering community.
Abstract: A product or system development process is a kind of complex system, arguably even more complex than the system it produces. Yet, the models and tools used by systems engineers and program managers to plan and manage technical work—such as process flowcharts, Gantt charts, work breakdown structures, and text-rendered procedures—are less sophisticated and capable than the ones used to design the product system. When used, the various process models are often challenged to incorporate and maintain synchronized program information—e.g., they may be created by different subgroups in a program and based on different assumptions, and they may diverge as a program proceeds. Recently, architecture frameworks (AFs) have been used to help manage the complexity in engineered systems. An AF provides a portfolio of views of a complex system, each of which describes it partially and in a format meaningful to its users and their particular needs. This paper proposes the application of AF concepts to the management of the work done to develop a complex system product. The pieces of work and their relationships constitute a complex process. A portfolio of integrated and synchronized views of a single process model would seem to be preferable to the current state—a number of disparate and uncoordinated management models. This paper introduces a new application of AFs to development processes and suggests this area as one for further research and development in the systems engineering community. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Syst Eng

71 citations

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TL;DR: A systematic approach that combines some linear programming tools with unique BPR principles is proposed to support the technical redesign of the current process.
Abstract: The goal of business process reengineering (BPR) is to achieve dramatic improvements in business measures of performance by radically changing the process design. This paper provides a structural definition of the redesign search space using the number of employee types and the number of activities. A systematic approach that combines some linear programming tools with unique BPR principles is then proposed to support the technical redesign of the current process. The approach is illustrated using a public firm process.

71 citations

Book ChapterDOI
07 Sep 2009
TL;DR: An approach for detecting and repairing modeling errors that only occur in the interplay between control flow and data flow is introduced, based on Petri nets and detects anomalies in BPMN models.
Abstract: When using process models for automation, correctness of the models is a key requirement. While many approaches concentrate on control flow verification only, correct data flow modeling is of similar importance. This paper introduces an approach for detecting and repairing modeling errors that only occur in the interplay between control flow and data flow. The approach is based on Petri nets and detects anomalies in BPMN models. In addition to the diagnosis of the modeling errors, a subset of errors can also be repaired automatically.

71 citations

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TL;DR: This article makes use of learning techniques, namely Inductive Logic Programming (ILP), in order to discover workflow activities and to describe them as planning operators, and aims at arriving at a feasible plan by successive refinement of the operators.
Abstract: The ability to describe business processes as executable models has always been one of the fundamental premises of workflow management. Yet, the tacit nature of human knowledge is often an obstacle to eliciting accurate process models. On the other hand, the result of process modeling is a static plan of action, which is difficult to adapt to changing procedures or to different business goals. In this article, we attempt to address these problems by approaching workflow management with a combination of learning and planning techniques. Assuming that processes cannot be fully described at build-time, we make use of learning techniques, namely Inductive Logic Programming (ILP), in order to discover workflow activities and to describe them as planning operators. These operators will be subsequently fed to a partial-order planner in order to find the process model as a planning solution. The continuous interplay between learning, planning and execution aims at arriving at a feasible plan by successive refinement of the operators. The approach is illustrated in two simple scenarios. Following a discussion of related work, the paper concludes by presenting the main challenges that remain to be solved.

70 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
202359
2022184
2021254
2020327
2019368
2018395