Advanced Business Process Management


General Info

Teacher:

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

Course Objectives

  • 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

Course Contents

  • 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)

Study material