The current paper develops three different ways to measure the multi-period global cost efficiency for homogeneous networks of processes when the prices of exogenous inputs are known at all time periods. A multi-period network data envelopment analysis model is presented to measure the minimum cost of the network system based on the global production possibility set. We show that there is a rel...

There is considerable interest in “re-engineering” business processes to take up the opportunities provided by information technology. The tools used in traditional data modelling and other forms of systems design have been adopted for use in analyzing processes. However, this adaptation is inadequate. This paper describes a method Process ANalysis Network (ProcessANN) that has been designed sp...

The organizational perspective of Process Mining is a valuable technique that allows knowing the social network of an organization. To do so, it provides means to make an evaluation of networks by mapping and analyzing relationships among people, teams, departments or even entire organizations. There are many tools available in the market for social network analysis. However, for a long time th...

Processes in sport like motions or games are influenced by communication, interaction, adaptation, and spontaneous decisions. Therefore, on the one hand, those processes are often fuzzy and unpredictable and so have not extensively been dealt with, yet. On the other hand, most of those processes structurally are roughly determined by intention, rules, and context conditions and so can be classi...

Traditional data envelopment analysis (DEA) models deal with measurement of relative efficiency of decision making units (DMUs) in which multiple-inputs consumed to produce multiple-outputs. One of the drawbacks of these models is neglecting internal processes of each system, which may have intermediate products and/or independent inputs and/or outputs. In this paper some methods which are usab...