Often business processes modelling is confined to Flow Chart like representation and the models are not amenable to analysis (e.g., simulation) to study their behaviour. As a consequence, validation and verification of such models are merely conducted manually based on the intuition, experience and knowledge of analysts and processes managers. While for small models this may not represent a cha...

Compliance issues impose significant management and reporting requirements upon organizations. We present an approach to enhance business process modeling notations with the capability to detect and resolve many broad compliance related issues. We provide a semantic characterization of a minimal revision strategy that helps us obtain compliant process models from models that might be initially ...

This paper focuses the reasons and advantages of the application of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) in organizational architecture modeling. A presentation and description of the methodology to apply business modeling is made, namely, the organization of the modeling in views and the application of those views. A case study is presented, as an illustration.

Development of multidatabase systems requires a careful understanding of the data requirements and of the data interaction between the participant sites. Total integration of the data is not feasable, due to such reasons as the dynamics of today's information requirements. We therefore put forward that a multidatabase system must be built on a partial integration. In this paper we outline a met...

Every action a business process performs must be explicitly anticipated, designed for and implemented by business professionals. Most of the current techniques specify business processes (BP) without incorporating all four Ws; Who, When, What and Where. These processes when used especially in logistics or supply chain applications will result in a BP becoming even more complicated and harder to...

Many organizations realize that increasing amounts of data (“Big Data”) need to be dealt with intelligently in order to compete with other organizations in terms of efficiency, speed and services. The goal is not to collect as much data as possible, but to turn event data into valuable insights that can be used to improve business processes. However, data-oriented analysis approaches fail to re...

In spite of many advances in business process simulation technologies, their adoption by the business analyst community has been primarily limited to specialists. We propose a Business Process Transformation Wizard as a capability to bridge this gap. This enables analysts to explore different business process transformation options using Business Process Transformation patterns and analyze thei...

Simulation provides a flexible approach to analyzing business processes. Through simulation experiments various “what if” questions can be answered and redesign alternatives can be compared with respect to key performance indicators. This chapter introduces simulation as an analysis tool for business process management. After describing the characteristics of business simulation models, the pha...

Business Process Analysis (BPA) aims to verify, validate, and identify potential improvements for business processes. Despite the wide range of technologies developed so far, the large amount of information that needs to be integrated and processed, as well as the quantity of data that has to be produced and presented still poses important challenges both from a processing and presentation pers...

An important aspect of business process modelling is let nonprofessional users understand business processes, so that they can be involved not only in their understanding but even in their management. This paper introduces a business process editor geared to end users whose prerequisites are very elementary. The editor has been developed by the DIS of University of Naples “Federico II”, in a pa...