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Teacher:

• 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

• 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

• 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)

Course Slides

• Course Introduction
• Introduction to BPM
• Evolution of Enterprise System Management
• Patterns
• BPMN 2.0
• BPMN 2.0 exercise 1 ( A possible solution of exercise 1)
• BPMN 2.0 exercise 2 ( A possible solution of exercise 2)

Homework

• Modeling BPMN 2.0

Reading

• Moving toward e-business as usual pdf
• Understanding systems from a business viewpoint pdf
• Design science in information system research pdf
• A framework for information system architecture pdf
• Workflow Pattern link
• BPMN 2.0 specification link
• BPMN 2.0 by example link
• BPMN 2.0 – manifesto pdf
• A technique of state space search based on unfolding pdf
• Semantics and analysis of business process models in BPMN link
• Petri Net: Properties, Analysis and Applications pdf
• Flexibility issues in process-aware information system 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.

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