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Auflistung nach Schlagwort "Business Process Modeling"

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  • Konferenzbeitrag
    Assessing process models with cognitive psychology
    (Enterprise modelling and information systems architectures (EMISA 2011), 2011) Zugal, Stefan; Pinggera, Jakob; Weber, Barbara
    The importance of a business process model to be understandable to its reader is widely acknowledged. In this vein, several approaches to assess and improve understandability exist, such as theoretical quality frameworks, modeling guidelines and process model metrics. In this paper we propose to investigate the issue of understandability from the angle of cognitive psychology. To this end, we discuss how the cognitive process of inference acts as a central process of problem solving. In particular, we illustrate in how far chunking, computational offloading and external memory might have an impact on the understandability of process models. Our propositions are theory-based so far and will serve as basis for planned empirical investigations, as discussed in the research agenda.
  • Konferenzbeitrag
    Business Process Modeling Approaches and Tools at the Institute for Project Management and Information Modeling (IPIM)
    (40 Years EMISA 2019, 2020) Seel, Christian; Dörndorfer, Julian; Hilpoltsteiner, Daniel; Timinger, Holger
    Information Modeling has been a core research area in the IS discipline. Furthermore, the design and implementation of information modeling tools is an established and frequently used method to examine artifacts and phenomena. Especially in design-science-research (DSR) the implementation of prototypic modeling tools is often a key success factor for the proof-of-concept and evaluation of artefacts. The Institute for Project Management and Information Modeling (IPIM) focuses on DSR and implementation of modeling prototypes, e.g. the SenSoMod-Modeler or an adaptive BPMN modeling tool. SenSoMod is a domain-aware modeling language, which enables to model the data origin and aggregation of context as input for mobile context-sensitive business processes. The BPMN modeling tool enables the modeling of adaptive process models including all variants of a process. The tool also enables the extraction of a concrete variant from the adaptive model using parameters. At the exhibition both concepts and tools will be presented.
  • Zeitschriftenartikel
    Business Process Modeling in the 1920s and 1930s as reflected in Fritz Nordsieck's PhD Thesis
    (Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems Architectures (EMISAJ) – International Journal of Conceptual Modeling: Vol. 15, Nr. 6, 2021) Jan Mendling
    The PhD thesis by Fritz Nordsieck submitted in 1931 was one of the first scientific works in Germany that focused explicitly on business process models. Although the general contributions of Nordsieck to the study of business processes is often acknowledged, there is hardly any reflection on his specific findings on process modeling in any of the works after World War II. This is problematic since research on process modeling often assumes that later works on Petri nets and IDEF in the 1960s defined the starting point of process modeling. In this article, we discuss the contributions of Nordsieck's thesis. We find that the practice of workflow modeling was already richly developed in the 1920s. Even though some present-day concepts were still missing, the thesis still has the potential to inform contemporary research. Most important is the discussion of different categories of diagrams on a spectrum from spatio-temporal to conceptual, which demonstrates the need of re-integrating ideas from information visualization and conceptual modeling, two fields that have been artificially separated and researched by different communities over the last 40 years.
  • Konferenzbeitrag
    The Business Process Technology Research Group
    (40 Years EMISA 2019, 2020) Pufahl, Luise; Weske, Mathias
    In this paper the Business Process Technology research group at the Hasso Plattner Institut, University of Potsdam and its relevance for the EMISA special interest group is presented. The paper starts by reviewing the main research areas and contributions to the research community the group has provided, before sketching some of the current research topics the group is working on. In addition to the conceptual research results, the prototypes developed by BPT in the context of the BPT architecture are introduced, which relate to process modeling, event processing, and process execution.
  • Zeitschriftenartikel
    Dual Deep Modeling of Business Processes
    (Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems Architectures (EMISAJ) – International Journal of Conceptual Modeling: Vol. 15, Nr. 7, 2022) Bernd Neumayr, Christoph G. Schuetz
    Multi-level modeling (MLM) facilitates conceptual modeling at multiple levels, with clabjects as basic modeling constructs that combine characteristics of metaclasses, classes and objects. Different MLM approaches differ, among others, in the meaning and structure of levels and clabjects, in the strictness or flexibility regarding cross-level relationships, and in the mechanisms for deep characterization by which clabjects at higher levels describe and constrain clabjects at multiple lower levels. The Multi-level Process Challenge provides a testbed for MLM approaches to highlight design decisions regarding these aspects. In this paper we solve the challenge using Dual Deep Modeling (DDM), a MLM approach that features dual potencies which facilitate high flexibility for cross-level relationships. With relationships with dual potencies, a single clabject can play multiple roles at different levels of instantiation, thereby DDM facilitates very compact multi-level models.