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- ZeitschriftenartikelBusiness Process Simulation on Procedural Graphical Process Models(Business & Information Systems Engineering: Vol. 63, No. 5, 2021) Rosenthal, Kristina; Ternes, Benjamin; Strecker, StefanBusiness process simulation marks an essential technique for analyzing business processes and for reasoning about process improvement. With first contributions dating back to the mid-1990s, computerized business process simulation has been a continuing research focus and is widely acknowledged as foundational to Business Process Management research and practice. Reviewing contributions to the field published between 1990 and 2018, the authors assess the state of research on business process simulation and develop an organizing overview of research contributions discussing simulation approaches, tool support, results visualization, use context, application purposes, and adoption barriers. Findings inform future research on business process simulation by discussing paths for behavioral research on the use of business process simulation, user requirements, and adoption barriers as well as complementary paths for design science research addressing limitations of present approaches and simulation tool support.
- ZeitschriftenartikelEliciting and Modeling Business Process Stories(Business & Information Systems Engineering: Vol. 60, No. 2, 2018) Simões, David; Antunes, Pedro; Carriço, LuisMost business process modeling tools used today encourage the rendition of lean, prescribed and clearly coordinated activities, which often clash with far more intricate business realities. This paper evaluates an alternative approach that adopts concepts from storytelling and sense-making theories to elicit process stories. The viability of this approach is tested in a case study involving sixteen individuals from the same organization who tell their personal views about a business process, thus gathering a total of twenty process stories. The obtained results suggest that process stories may increase the meaningfulness, contextualization and overall richness of process models.
- ZeitschriftenartikelMixed-Paradigm Process Modeling with Intertwined State Spaces(Business & Information Systems Engineering: Vol. 58, No. 1, 2016) Smedt, Johannes; Weerdt, Jochen; Vanthienen, Jan; Poels, GeertBusiness process modeling often deals with the trade-off between comprehensibility and flexibility. Many languages have been proposed to support different paradigms to tackle these characteristics. Well-known procedural, token-based languages such as Petri nets, BPMN, EPC, etc. have been used and extended to incorporate more flexible use cases, however the declarative workflow paradigm, most notably represented by the Declare framework, is still widely accepted for modeling flexible processes. A real trade-off exists between the readable, rather inflexible procedural models, and the highly-expressive but cognitively demanding declarative models containing a lot of implicit behavior. This paper investigates in detail the scenarios in which combining both approaches is useful, it provides a scoring table for Declare constructs to capture their intricacies and similarities compared to procedural ones, and offers a step-wise approach to construct mixed-paradigm models. Such models are especially useful in the case of environments with different layers of flexibility and go beyond using atomic subprocesses modeled according to either paradigm. The paper combines Petri nets and Declare to express the findings.
- ZeitschriftenartikelQualitätsmerkmale, -metriken und -messverfahren für Geschäftsprozessmodelle(Wirtschaftsinformatik: Vol. 54, No. 5, 2012) Overhage, Sven; Birkmeier, Dominik Q.; Schlauderer, SebastianDie Verfügbarkeit qualitativ hochwertiger Geschäftsprozessmodelle gilt als eine zentrale Voraussetzung für ein erfolgreiches Prozessmanagement. In der Praxis zeigen Prozessmodelle dennoch eine Vielzahl von Qualitätsdefiziten, darunter sprachliche, inhaltliche und stilistische Mängel. Darüber hinaus finden sich kaum Ansätze, mit denen die Qualität von Geschäftsprozessmodellen bestimmt werden kann. Im Beitrag wird mit dem 3QM-Framework ein analytischer Ansatz vorgestellt, mit dem sich die Qualität von Geschäftsprozessmodellen systematisch bestimmen lässt. Das 3QM-Framework leistet hierzu drei Beiträge: es stellt Qualitätsmerkmale, -metriken und -messverfahren zur Quantifizierung des Qualitätsniveaus als Elemente eines theoretisch begründeten Qualitätsmodells bereit. Die Anwendbarkeit des 3QM-Frameworks wurde im Rahmen von Fallstudien empirisch überprüft. Die Ergebnisse einer Expertenbefragung bestätigen darüber hinaus seine praktische Relevanz.AbstractThe availability of high-quality business process models is a central prerequisite for a successful process management. Nevertheless, in practice process models exhibit a large number of quality deficits, among them grammatical, content-related, and stylistic defects. In addition, there exist only very few approaches to determine the quality of business process models. In this paper, we present the 3QM-Framework, an analytical approach to systematically determine the quality of business process models. The 3QM-Framework makes three contributions: it provides quality marks, metrics, and measurement procedures to quantify the quality level as elements of a theoretically justified quality model. The applicability of the 3QM-Framework has been empirically evaluated in case studies. The results of a survey that was conducted among experts moreover attest its practical relevance.