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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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05 Dec 2010TL;DR: An industrial application of a new conceptual modeling technique, named IDEF-SIM (Integrated Definition Methods - Simulation) currently under development by the authors, which uses logic elements present in techniques such as IDEF0 and IDEF3, but in a way that is similar to the process interpretation logic usually used in simulation projects.
Abstract: Several process modeling techniques have been used in simulation projects. However, most of these techniques provide little specific support to the programming. The main cause of this is the fact that these techniques were not developed with the same logic used in simulation models. From this issue, this paper presents an industrial application of a new conceptual modeling technique, named IDEF-SIM (Integrated Definition Methods -- Simulation) currently under development by the authors. This adapted IDEF uses logic elements present in techniques such as IDEF0 and IDEF3, but in a way that is similar to the process interpretation logic usually used in simulation projects. This way, it can be noticed an increase in the conceptual model's utility, which might facilitate the simulation model programming, verification and validation and the scenarios creation. Additionally, the paper presents the benefits of using IDEF-SIM to create the conceptual model of a Brazilian tech company manufacturing cell.
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01 Oct 2006TL;DR: This article reviews the concept of Business Intelligence and provides a survey, from a comprehensive point of view, on the BI technical framework, process, and enterprise solutions.
Abstract: Business intelligence (BI) has been viewed as sets of powerful tools and approaches to improving business executive decision-making, business operations, and increasing the value of the enterprise. The technology categories of BI mainly encompass data warehousing, OLAP, and data mining. This article reviews the concept of Business Intelligence and provides a survey, from a comprehensive point of view, on the BI technical framework, process, and enterprise solutions. In addition, the conclusions point out the possible reasons for the difficulties of broad deployment of enterprise BI, and the proposals of constructing a better BI system.
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TL;DR: This research developed and evaluated an alternative process to the traditional sequence of interviews or the increasingly common use of JAD meetings run by professional facilitators/modelers, and found the GSS technique reduced the time required to build models by about 75 percent.
Abstract: Much process modeling research has focused on the development of new modeling languages, but very little research has examined the process by which model information is collected from subject-matter experts. The goal of this research was to develop and evaluate an alternative process to the traditional sequence of interviews or the increasingly common use of JAD (Joint Application Design) meetings run by professional facilitators/modelers. We began by selecting one commonly used modeling technique (IDEF0) and adapting its traditional modeling process to use an enabling technology of a group support system (GSS). We developed a special-purpose GSS tool to support the process and tested it through a series of eight field trials over a sixteen-month period. We then compared the new GSS-based technique with the traditional JAD technique in an additional series of eighteen field studies (nine JAD, nine GSS) over a two-year period. The results indicate that the GSS technique reduced the time required to build models by about 75 percent. Models built using GSS and the traditional JAD approach had similar numbers of syntax errors. Project managers perceived the GSS models to be as good as or better than the traditional JAD models in accurately defining the business process.
90 citations
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TL;DR: This paper focuses on potential memory mismatches that may arise with respect to the embedding of process knowledge within ERP packages and suspects that there are still many instances where process knowledge is either lost or represented in different ways in different parts of the organization.
Abstract: Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems not only have a broad functional scope promising to support many different business processes, they also embed many different aspects of the company’s organizational memory. Disparities can exist between those memory contents in the ERP system and related contents in other memory media, such as individuals’ memories, and the organizational structure and culture. It is our contention that, in general, these disparities or memory mismatches, as we will refer to them, lead to under-performance of ERP systems. In this paper we focus on potential memory mismatches that may arise with respect to the embedding of process knowledge within ERP packages. Packages such as SAP provide a varied and rich environment for process modeling. However, we suspect that there are still many instances where process knowledge is either lost or represented in different ways in different parts of the organization. As we will discuss, the results of such memory mismatches will often not become evident until the system is in use. The overall thrust of the paper is to identify a variety of concerns, intriguing questions and avenues for future research.
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01 Jan 2006TL;DR: An insurance company that has recently wanted to standardize on business process modeling language is described, which illustrates the practical utility of the overall framework, where language quality features are looked upon as means to enable the creation of models of high quality.
Abstract: We describe in this paper an insurance company that has recently wanted to standardize on business process modeling language. To perform the evaluation, a generic framework for assessing the quality of models and modeling languages was specialized to the needs of the company. Three different modeling languages were evaluated according to the specialized criteria. The work illustrates the practical utility of the overall framework, where language quality features are looked upon as means to enable the creation of models of high quality. It also illustrates the need for specializing this kind of general framework based on the requirements of the specific organization.
90 citations