====== Advanced Business Process Management ======
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===== General Info =====
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**Teacher**: 
  * [[https://barbarare.wordpress.com/|Barbara Re]] 

**Lessons schedule**:
  * Wednesday:  9:00 am – 11:00 am
  * Thursday:  9:00 am – 11:00 am


**Students reception hours**:
  * Please book an appointment by mail
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===== Course Objectives =====

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  * The course focuses on enterprise information systems that are driven by models, i.e., instead of constructing code these systems are assembled, configured or generated using a model-driven approach
  * We will focus on the so-called "process-aware" information systems to better understand the impact of the modelling of business processes both in static and dynamic environment
  * The course introduces all relevant state-of-the-art concepts, methods and technologies enabling process flexibility, e.g., process configuration, exception handling, ad-hoc process changes, process schema evolution

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===== Course Contents =====

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  * **Introduction to Business Process Management** (Evolution of Enterprise Systems Architectures; Business Process and Business Process Models; Business Process Life-Cycle)
  * **Flexibility Issues in Process-Aware Information Systems** (Perspectives on a Process-Aware Information System; Pre-speciﬁed and Repetitive Processes and Knowledge-Intensive Processes; Variability, Looseness, Adaptation, Evolution. Process Modelling & Flexibility-by-Design)
  * **Business Process Modelling** (Conceptual models and abstraction mechanisms; Petri nets, Workflow nets and workflow modules; Workflow patterns, Event-driven Process Chains (EPC), Business Process Modelling Notation 2.0 (BPMN), Yet Another Workflow Language (YAWL); Related Extension to support flexibility)
  * **Analysing the Behaviour of Process Models** (Verifying Pre-speciﬁed Process Models; Ensuring Correctness of Conﬁgured Process Variants; Unfolding techniques)
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===== Study material =====
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**Course Slides**
  * [[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1606914/ATBPM%282014-15%29/Class1%20-%20Syllabus%20Course.pdf | Course Introduction]]
  * [[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1606914/ATBPM%282014-15%29/Class2%20-%20Introduction.pdf | Introduction to BPM]] 
  * [[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1606914/ATBPM%282014-15%29/Class3%20-%20Enterprise%20Systems%20Architectures.pdf | Evolution of Enterprise System Management]]
  * [[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1606914/ATBPM%282014-15%29/Class4%20-%20Pattern.pdf | Patterns]]
  * [[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1606914/ATBPM%282014-15%29/Class5%20-%20BPMN.pdf | BPMN 2.0]] 
  * [[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1606914/ATBPM%282014-15%29/Exercise%201%20-%20Modelling%20BPMN.pdf | BPMN 2.0 exercise 1]]  ([[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1606914/ATBPM%282014-15%29/Esercizio%201.jpg| A possible solution of exercise 1]])
  * [[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1606914/ATBPM%282014-15%29/Exercise%201%20-%20Modelling%20BPMN.pdf | BPMN 2.0 exercise 2]]  ([[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1606914/ATBPM%282014-15%29/Excersise%202.png| A possible solution of exercise 2]])
  * [[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1606914/ATBPM%282014-15%29/Class6%20-%20Flexibility%20Issues%20in%20Process-Aware%20Information%20Systems.pdf| Process Aware Information System]]
  * [[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1606914/ATBPM%282014-15%29/Class7%20-%20Flexibility%20Need.pdf  | Flexibility Need]]
  * [[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1606914/ATBPM%282014-15%29/Class8%20-%20bpFM.pdf| bpFM - Business Process Feature Model]]
  * [[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1606914/ATBPM%282014-15%29/Questionario%20Valutazione%20Approcci%20di%20Variabilit%C3%A0%20Processi%20di%20Business%20v3%20ENG.pdf| bpFM into practice and related validation]]
  * [[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1606914/ATBPM%282014-15%29/Class9%20-%20Verification.pdf | BP Analysis]]
  * [[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1606914/ATBI%282013-14%29/Unfolding.pdf| Unfolding techniques and related properties]]
  * [[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1606914/ATBPM%282014-15%29/Class10%20-%20PetriNets%26Mapping.pdf| BP Analysis: Petri Net and mapping from semi-formal to formal language]]
  * [[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1606914/ATBPM%282014-15%29/Class11%20-%20Compliance.pdf| BP Analysis: compliance checking]]
  * [[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1606914/ATBPM%282014-15%29/SimulazioneEsame.pdf| Course's Topic overview and Exam simulation]]

** Homework **
  * [[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1606914/ATBPM%282014-15%29/Exercise%203-7.pdf|Modeling BPMN 2.0]]

** Reading **
  * Moving toward e-business as usual [[https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1606914/Advanced%20topics%20in%20Business%20Intelligence/Readings/Libro-Alter-Chapter1.pdf   |pdf]]
  * Understanding systems from a business viewpoint [[https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1606914/Advanced%20topics%20in%20Business%20Intelligence/Readings/Libro-Alter-Chapter2.pdf   |pdf]]
  * Design science in information system research [[https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1606914/Advanced%20topics%20in%20Business%20Intelligence/Readings/Hevner%20ea%20-%20design%20science%20in%20IS%20research%20MISQ-2.pdf   |pdf]]
  * A framework for information system architecture [[https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1606914/Advanced%20topics%20in%20Business%20Intelligence/Readings/Zachman.pdf   |pdf]]
  * Workflow Pattern [[http://www.workflowpatterns.com/ | link]]
  * BPMN 2.0 specification [[http://www.omg.org/spec/BPMN/2.0/ | link]]
  * BPMN 2.0 by example [[http://www.omg.org/spec/BPMN/20100601/10-06-02.pdf | link]]
  * BPMN 2.0 – manifesto [[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1606914/ATBI%282013-14%29/BPMN2_0_Poster_EN.pdf   |pdf]]
  * bpFM – “Modeling Process Intensive Scenarios for the Smart City” [[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1606914/ATBPM%282014-15%29/Gov2014Final.pdf |paper]]
  * A technique of state space search based on unfolding [[ http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.16.6281&rep=rep1&type=pdf  |pdf]]
  * Semantics and analysis of business process models in BPMN [[http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0950584908000323 | link]]
  * Petri Net: Properties, Analysis and Applications [[http://embedded.eecs.berkeley.edu/Research/hsc/class.F03/ee249/discussionpapers/PetriNets.pdf   |pdf]]
  * Flexibility issues in process-aware information system [[http://www.process-flexibility.com/fileadmin/user_upload/reading/PAISBook_Reichert_Weber.pdf | link]]


**Reference books**
  * Mathias Weske. 2010. Business Process Management: Concepts, Languages, Architectures (1st ed.). Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated.
  * Reichert, Manfred, and Barbara Weber. Enabling flexibility in process-aware information systems: challenges, methods, technologies. Springer, 2012.
  * Other lecture notes and research papers, selected during the course.

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===== Exams =====
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**Exam Dates A.Y. 2014/2015 (https://didattica.unicam.it/Home.do)**
  * 01/02/2016 14:00
  * 01/10/2015 14:00
  * 15/09/2015 14:00 
  * 01/07/2015 14:00 
  * 16/06/2015 14:00 
  * 31/03/2015 14:00 
  * 23/02/2015 14:00 
  * 03/02/2015 14:00

**Exam rules**: 
  * Writing Examination on the topics of the syllabus
  * Open or multiple-choice questions + Exercise
  * Time available: 2 h

** Exam Results **
  * N/A
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