There are two general approaches to computer-based statistical modeling that are used by business managers. (In essence, there are two mathematical approaches to creating the underlying "engines" that execute the models.) One approach is referred to as Systems Dynamics and the other is termed Discrete Event Simulation. Either can be effective in analyzing business problems, though as a generali...

With information technology progressing on a nearly day-to-day basis with respect to technical feasibility, general availability and individual familiarity, challenges of eLearning at the workplace no longer reside in technical impediments. Whereas bulky, unhandy software, weak network connections or low usability used to present the major obstacles, it is now the missing integration of eLearni...

Business process modeling is the act of making explicit organizational knowledge about working procedures. Process models are diagrams that communicate activities, their routing order, documents, and responsibilities in visual graphs. Process models are created by modeling experts, such as business analysts and consultants. Experts of the domain, e.g. clerks and managers, share their knowledge ...

mit der aktuellen Ausgabe des EMISA Forums erhalten Sie Folge 2 unserer neuen Kolumne zum Thema Business Process Management (BPM). Themen zur Modellierung und zum Management von Prozessen nehmen bei Veranstaltungen mit EMISA-Beteiligung traditionell eine wichtige Rolle ein. Mit der BPM-Kolumne tragen wir diesem Umstand Rechnung und berichten über aktuelle Themen, Projekte, Veranstaltungen und E...

The architecture of a process agent is a three-layer BDI, hybrid, multi-agent architecture. These process agents are intended to deal with corporate cultural, or political, sensitivities as well as with corporate rules. These agents adapt their behaviour on the basis of the likelihood of plan success, and on estimates of the time, cost and value of choosing a plan.

The use of formal semantics for the support of Business Process Management is an emerging branch of research, with substantial economic potential. In particular, business processes modelled in graphical notations such as BPMN can be semantically annotated to specify more precisely what the individual tasks in the process will be responsible for. This raises the need for, and opens up the opport...

Internally, the delivery of products and services to customers is the end result of co-ordinated activities by different groups working within the business. Companies seem to go through an irreversible life cycle that leads them towards specialisation, complexity and functional parochialism. However hard we try to avoid the situation developing, the entrepreneurial start of the business, where ...

Gamification is a recent trend concerned with the use of game design elements in nongame applications. This PhD research proposal discusses the use of gamification for business process modeling in participative BPM scenarios. To that extent, a modeling tool allowing users to earn points and badges and compare themselves with others on a leaderboard is described. A discussion of initial, mixed r...