Design and Control of Workflow Processes: Business Process Management for the Service Industry (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2617, Band 2617) - Softcover

Reijers, Hajo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3540011862 ISBN 13: 9783540011866

Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008

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The motivation behind the conception of this monograph was to advance scientific knowledge about the design and control of workflow processes. A workflow pr- ess (or workflow for short) is a specific type of business process, a way of or- nizing work and resources. Workflows are commonly found within large admin- trative organizations such as banks, insurance companies, and governmental agencies. Carrying out the tasks of a workflow in a particular order is required to handle one type of case. Examples of cases are mortgage applications, customer complaints, and claims for unemployment benefits. A workflow used in handling mortgage applications may contain tasks for recording the application, specifying a mortgage proposal, and approving the final policy. The monograph concentrates on four workflow-related issues within the area of Business Process Management; the field of designing and controlling business processes. The first issue is how workflows can be adequately modeled. Workflow mod- ing is an indispensable activity to support any reasoning about workflows. Diff- ent purposes of workflow modeling can be distinguished, such as system ena- ment by Workflow Management Systems, knowledge management, costing, and budgeting. The focus of workflow modeling in this monograph is (a) to support simulation and analysis of workflows and (b) to specify a new workflow design. The main formalism used for the modeling of workflows is the Petri net. Many - isting notions to define several relevant properties have been adopted, such as the workflow net and the soundness notion.

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Marlon Dumas is a professor of Information Systems at University of Tartu, Estonia and Adjunct Professor at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia. He is co-editor of a textbook on Process-Aware Information Systems (Wiley, 2005) and has taught BPM both in academia and as a professional trainer for over a decade in a dozen countries. He is also an active BPM researcher with a focus on process modeling, analysis and monitoring. He is one of the main architects of two open-source BPM projects - Apromore and Nirdizati.

Marcello La Rosa is a professor of Information Systems at The University of Melbourne, Australia. Prior to that, he held an appointment at QUT, Australia. Marcello leads the Apromore open-source project, for the development of an advanced process analytics platform, and contributes to the predictive process monitoring platform Nirdizati. His research interests focus on process mining, analysis and consolidation. Marcello has taught BPM to students and practitioners in Australia and overseas for over ten years. His MOOCs, co-developed with the other authors of this book, have been attended by over 25,000 students worldwide.

Jan Mendling is a full professor with the Institute for Information Business at the WU Vienna, Austria. Prior to that, he held appointments at Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany, and at QUT, Australia. Currently, he is also a visiting professor at the University of Ljubljana and the University of Liechtenstein. His main research interests are in business process management and process mining. Jan has taught BPM to students and practitioners at different institutions in Europe and Australia. He is co-founder of the Berliner BPM-Offensive, a practitioners' forum for BPM, and a board member of the Austrian Process Management Society (Gesellschaft für Prozessmanagement).

Hajo A. Reijers is a full professor of Business Informatics at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He also holds a position as part-time, full professor at Eindhoven University of Technology. Previously, he worked as a management consultant in the BPM field. Hajo has taught BPM to students at all academic levels and provides training to practitioners at the TIAS Business School. He is one of the founders of the Business Process Management Forum, a Dutch platform for the exchange of knowledge between industry and academia.

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• Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3540011862
• ISBN 13: 9783540011866
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 340
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