Advanced Business Process Management

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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

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)

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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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