====== Business Process Management and Flexibility ======
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===== News =====
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  * <wrap em>**Lessons Start**</wrap>: 3 October, see you in class!!!
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===== General Information =====
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**Lecture**: 
  * [[https://barbarare.wordpress.com/ |Barbara Re]] 

**Lessons Scheduling**:
  * 42 h - lecture and exercise sessions 
  * Monday:  15:00 am – 17:00 am
  * Thursday: 11:00 am – 13:00 am

**To book an appointment**:
  * Please send and e-mail.
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===== Course Objective =====
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   * The course presents 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
  * The course 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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===== Learning Outcome =====
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  * Understand the importance of Business Process and Business Process Management
  * Gain some familiarity with business process terminology
  * Know most common techniques of Business Process modelling and be familiar with Business Process Management tools with a particular emphasis on Business Process flexibility
  * Apply Business Process Management into practical case studies
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===== Syllabus =====

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Introduction to Business Process Management
  * Process Everywhere
  * Business Process Model and Instances
  * Business Process Life-Cycle
  * Classification of Business Process

Business Process Modelling
  * Conceptual models and abstraction mechanisms
  * Control Flow Patterns
  * Modelling Languages: Petri nets, Workflow nets and workflow modules, Yet Another Workflow Language, Event-driven Process Chains and Business Process Modelling Notation 2.0 (BPMN)
  * Model Understandability
  * Modelling Environments

Business Process Analysis 
  * Verifying Pre-speciﬁed Process Models: Process Model Soundness and Correctness of Data Flow
  * Pocess Model Formalization
  * Verification into practice 


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


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===== Slides And Materials =====
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**Slides** are available in the following: 
  * {{ :didattica:magistrale:bpmf:ay_1617:class1_-_syllabus_course.pdf |Course Introduction}}
  * {{ :didattica:magistrale:bpmf:ay_1617:class2_-_introduction.pdf |Introduction BPM and BP definitions}} 
  * {{ :didattica:magistrale:bpmf:ay_1617:class4_-_pattern.pdf |Business Process Patterns}}
    * [[http://www.workflowpatterns.com/| Workflow Patterns home page]]
  * {{ :didattica:magistrale:bpmf:ay_1617:class4b_-_modelling_language.pdf |BP Modelling Languages}}
  * BPMN Modelling
    * Manifesto {{ :didattica:magistrale:bpmf:ay_1617:bpmn2_0_poster_en.pdf |}}
    * Slide {{ :didattica:magistrale:bpmf:ay_1617:class5_-_bpmn.pdf |BPMN Overview and Collaboration Diagram}}
    * Modelling {{ :didattica:magistrale:bpmf:ay_1617:modellingexercise.pdf | Exercises }}
    * OMG BPMN Specification - [[ http://www.omg.org/spec/BPMN/2.0/| Link]]
    * OMG BPMN by Example - [[http://www.omg.org/spec/BPMN/20100601/10-06-02.pdf|link]] 
    * Signavio tool (for registration use the following link, it is a dedicate space for UniCam students: [[http://academic.signavio.com/p/register?link=49b6ca940da04308ac5f133740119d41|Link]])
  * BPMN Modelling Guidelines
    * Slide - {{ :didattica:magistrale:bpmf:ay_1617:15-12-2016-_bpmn_modeling_guidelines.pdf |Guidelines}}
    * Technical Report - [[http://puma.isti.cnr.it/linkdoc.php?idauth=1&idcol=1&icode=2015-TR-034&authority=cnr.isti&collection=cnr.isti&langver=it |Link]]
    * Automatic Verication of the Guidelines: BEBoP tool -[[http://understandabilitybpmn.isti.cnr.it:8080/JSPUIUnderstandability/contentform.jsf|Link]]
  * BPMN Choreography Diagram
    * Slide - {{ :didattica:magistrale:bpmf:ay_1617:class5c_-_bpmnchoreography.pdf |Choreography}}
  * Process Verification
    * {{ :didattica:magistrale:bpmf:ay_1617:class7_-_petrinets_mapping_salvato_automaticamente_.pdf |Mapping in Petri-Nets}}
    * {{ :didattica:magistrale:bpmf:ay_1617:class7_-_petrinets_mapping.pdf |PEtri}}
    * {{ :didattica:magistrale:bpmf:ay_1617:class8_-_verification.pdf | Properties Verification}}
    * {{ :didattica:magistrale:bpmf:ay_1617:class9_-_compliance.pdf | Compliance Verification}}
  * Flexibility in Business Process
    * {{ :didattica:magistrale:bpmf:ay_1617:srl.pdf |A systematic Literature Review }}
    * {{ :didattica:magistrale:bpmf:ay_1617:class10_-_flexibility_issues_in_process-aware_information_systems.pdf |PAIS information systems}}
    * {{ :didattica:magistrale:bpmf:ay_1617:class11_-_flexibility_need.pdf |Need and Modelling}}
  * Modelling BPFM 
    * {{ :didattica:magistrale:bpmf:ay_1617:bpfm.pdf |Slide}}
    * Book Chapter - [[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305113218_Business_Process_Feature_Model_An_Approach_to_Deal_with_Variability_of_Business_Processes|link]]
    * Tool - [[http://austria.omilab.org/psm/content/bpfm/info|link]]
  * {{ :didattica:magistrale:bpmf:ay_1617:examsimulation.docx |Exam Simulation}} 


** Reference Textbooks **
  * Business Process Management. Concepts, Languages, Architectures.  Weske, Mathias 2007, XIV, 368 p. 265 illus.. ISBN: 9780321155559. 
    * Chapter 1 – Introduction
    * Chapter 2 - Evolution of Enterprise Systems Architectures
    * Chapter 4 – Process Orchestrations (4.1 Control Flow Patterns - 4.2 Petri Nets - 4.7 Business Process Modeling Notation)
    * Chapter 5 - Process Choreographies
  * Dumas, Marlon, et al. Fundamentals of business process management. Heidelberg: Springer, 2013.
    * Capitolo 1 - Introduction to Business Process Management
    * Capitolo 3 -  Essential Process Modeling
    * Capitolo 4 -  Advanced Process Modeling.
  * Reichert, Manfred, and Barbara Weber. Enabling flexibility in process-aware information systems: challenges, methods, technologies. Springer, 2012. 
    * Chapter 1 Introduction
    * Chapter 2 Process-Aware Information Systems
    * Chapter 3 - Flexibility Issues in Process-Aware Information Systems
    * Chapter 4 Process Modeling and Flexibility-byDesign
    * Chapter 5 - Process Configuration Support
    * Chapter 10 - Business Process Compliance

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===== Assessment =====
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**Dates A.A. 2016/2017 (see: https://didattica.unicam.it/Home.do)**
  * 31/01/2017 - 09:00 
  * 06/02/2017 - 11:30
  * 21/02/2017 - 11:30
  * 20/06/2017 - 11:30
  * 11/07/2017 - 11:30
  * 19/09/2017 - 11:30
  * 30/01/2018 - 11:30
  * 13/02/2018 - 11:30


**Exams Rules**: 
  * Writing Examination on the topics of the syllabus
  * Open or multiple-choice questions + Exercise
  * 2 h

** Exam Results **
  * N/A

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