As demandas de um mercado cada vez mais dinâmico e global exigiram das organizações um formato mais flexível que as rígidas estruturas funcionais, sendo que a Gestão por Processos (BPM) surgiu como uma alternativa a tal necessidade. Para auxiliar o sucessos de iniciativas de promoção de BPM, a literatura apresenta os Fatores Críticos de Sucesso de BPM e, dentre eles, está a Arquitetura de Processos (AP). A AP é definida como o que a organização faz sob o ponto de vista de processos, porém, outras definições e considerações quanto à sua importância são apresentadas dispersas na literatura, bem como métodos para sua elaboração, sem que haja um consenso dos conceitos e etapas para construção. Esta dificuldade de consenso foi identificada por um grupo de pesquisa engajado em promover BPM em uma unidade de ensino de uma Instituição de Ensino Superior (IES) pública brasileira que identificou a necessidade de elaborar sua AP, mas não encontrou um método que fosse consensual entre praticantes e teóricos de BPM. A partir deste contexto, surgiu o problema da presente pesquisa e seu objetivo principal: desenvolver um método de elaboração de Arquitetura de Processos e aplicar em uma unidade de uma IES pública brasileira. Para alcançar este objetivo a pesquisa utilizou-se de dois procedimentos metodológicos: 1. Revisão da literatura científica para consolidação do conhecimento acerca do tema AP, tanto dos seus conceitos quanto de seus métodos de elaboração e 2. Pesquisa-ação desenvolvida pelo grupo de pesquisa em conjunto com colaboradores da organização para aplicação e análise do método proposto. Os resultados foram: a identificação de cinco aspectos relevantes da AP, a avaliação dos métodos existentes na literatura, a proposição de um novo método e, por fim, a aplicação do novo método na unidade em questão da IES pública. A originalidade do trabalho foi a consolidação do conhecimento do tema AP, a elaboração de um método que pode servir como guia para outras organizações e a própria AP elaborada com base no contexto da IES. / The increasingly dynamic and global market demanded of organizations a format more flexible than the rigid functional structures, and the Business Process Management (BPM) has emerged as an alternative to such a need. To help the success of initiatives for promoting BPM, the literature presents the Critical Success Factors for BPM and among them is the Process Architecture (PA). So basic, AP is defined as what the organization does from the point of view of processes, however, other definitions and considerations regarding their importance are presented scattered in the literature, as well as methods for their development, without a consensus of the concepts and steps for construction. This lack of consensus has been identified by a research group engaged in promoting BPM in a brazilian public unit of education of a Higher Education Institution (HEI) who attested to the need to develop their PA, but did not find a method that was consensus among practitioners and theoretical of BPM. From that context, the problem that arose as motivation of this research and its main objective was: to develop a method for developing Process Architecture and apply it in a unit of a brazilian public HEI. To achieve this goal the research used two main methodological procedures: 1. Literature Reviews to consolidate the knowledge about the subject PA, both of their concepts as their methods of elaboration and 2. Research-action developed by the research group in conjunction with the organization\'s employees for application and analysis of the proposed method. The results were: the identification of five relevant aspects of AP, the evaluation of existing methods in the literature, the proposal of a new method, and finally, the application of the new method in the relevant unit of HEI. The main contributions of the research were the consolidation of knowledge of the subject AP, devising a method that may serve as a guide for other organizations and the very elaborate AP based on the context of the HEI.

A l’image des grands groupes, les PME souhaitent, elles aussi, profiter des méthodes modernes de management pour améliorer leurs processus, leurs performances et leur compétitivité. L’intérêt du secteur des PME se porte sur les éléments du concept Lean Six Sigma qui leur semblent appropriés pour réaliser ces objectifs. Après avoir constaté une lacune dans les recherches sur ce sujet et une lacune méthodologique concernant l’implémentation du LSS dans les PME, nous proposons une méthodologie de conception, d’application et de contrôle du LSS pour ces PME, que nous avons appelée LSS Plutus. Elle est dédiée aux PME de la production et elle prend en compte leur spécificité. Dans ce but, nous avons restreint la boîte à outils traditionnelle du LSS utilisée dans les grands groupes. Nous avons également créé deux variantes pour mettre en œuvre notre méthodologie qui correspondent aux besoins, capacités et maturités différents des PME. Nous avons élaboré des indicateurs, des outils, ainsi qu’un guide d’application de la méthode LSS pour les PME de la production et sa version informatique en TIBCO. Nous avons décidé de renforcer l’efficience des améliorations, en déployant les actions de planification, de standardisation et de pérennisation des changements. Dans ce but, nous proposons de modifier les critères du Modèle d’Excellence E.F.Q.M. pour qu’elles puissent prendre en compte les conditions de fonctionnement de la méthode LSS dans les PME. La méthodologie proposée a été vérifiée dans deux PME de la production en Pologne et en France, ce qui a confirmé son utilité et son efficacité en termes d’amélioration des performances et de développement des organisations / As well as the large companies, also the small and medium-sized enterprises desire to take advantage of modern management methods to improve their process, their performances and competitiveness. The interest of the SMEs is focused on the elements of the Lean Six Sigma concept that seem to be appropriate to achieve these goals. As we have identified a gap in the research on this topic and a methodological gap about the LSS implementation in the small and medium companies, we propose a methodology that we called LSS Plutus to design, apply and control Lean Six Sigma in the SMEs. It is dedicated to the small and medium production enterprises and it takes into account their specificity. For this purpose, we have limited the traditional LSS toolbox used by the large companies. We have also created two variants to apply our methodology according to the different needs, capacities and maturities of the SMEs. We have developed indicators, tools, as well as a practical guide for applying the LSS for the production SMEs and its computerized version in TIBCO. To enhance the efficiency of the improvements, we have deployed the planning, standardization and sustainability of the changes. For this purpose, we propose to modify the criteria of the EFQM Excellence Model in order to adapt it to the operating conditions of the Lean Six Sigma method in the SMEs. The proposed methodology has been verified in two production SMEs in Poland and in France that confirmed its utility and effectiveness in terms of performance improvement and organizational development

Syftet med denna studie var att förstå kriterier, barriärer, kostnader och fördelar som är förknippade med implementering av blockchain-teknik, och utifrån detta utforska hur blockchain-teknik kan förbättra BPM. Studien är av kvalitativ karaktär och gjordes sekventiellt genom att först genomföra en omfattande tvärvetenskaplig litteraturöversikt och därefter intervjua personer med erfarenhet från blockchain-teknik. Analysen gjordes med både en induktiv och deduktiv ansats där tematisk analys tillämpades. Resultaten från studien visar att blockchain-teknik kan minska transaktionskostnader, förbättra avstämning och verifiering, förbättra samarbetsprocesser och skapa förtroende och öppenhet samtidigt som de stöder organisationer med styrning av datasäkerhet, korrekthet av data, och minskade IT-kostnader till följd av förbättrad hantering med säkerhetskopiering av data, servrar och lagring. Stort fokus ligger för tillfället på smarta kontrakt där integrering av affärslogiken tillsammans med en förbättrad databasstruktur möjliggör förbättrat samarbete och automatisering av standardiserade affärsprocesser. Resultaten indikerar också brist på blockchain-ingenjörer, vilket påverkar utveckling och tillväxt. Studien belyser ett behov av ytterligare implementeringsstudier och att bättre skilja mellan de olika blockchain-typerna och de problem de kan lösa. Säkerhet, hållbarhet och interoperabilitet nämns ofta som utmaningar i den pågående diskussionen om blockchain. Detta är inte unikt för blockchain-teknik och mer nyanserade förklaringsmodeller krävs. Blockchain-teknik kan vara framtiden, och kan ersätta befintlig infrastruktur, i slutändan måste organisationer överväga vid vilken tidpunkt de bör börja tänka på att sätta blockchain på sin agenda, med de olika avvägningar som detta innebär. / The purpose of this study was to understand criteria, barriers, costs and benefits that are associated with implementing blockchain technology, and from this explore how blockchain technology can improve BPM. The study is of qualitative nature and was done sequentially by conducting an extensive cross-disciplinary literature review first, and then interviewed people with experience from blockchain technology. The analysis was done with both an inductive and deductive approach by doing a thematic analysis. The results from this study show that blockchain technology can reduce transactional costs, improve reconciliation, improve collaborative business processes and bring trust and transparency while supporting organizations with governance of data security, data consistency and reducing associated IT-costs with managing back-up of data, servers and storage. A lot of focus is currently centered around smart contracts, where incorporating the business logic together with an improved database structure allows for improved collaboration and automation of standardized business processes. The results also indicate a shortage of blockchain engineers, consequently impacting development and growth. The study highlights a need for further implementation studies and to better distinguish between the different blockchain types and the problems they can solve. Security, sustainability and interoperability are often mentioned as challenges in the current discourse on blockchain. This is not unique for blockchain and more nuanced explanation models are required. Blockchain technology may be the future and replace existing infrastructure, ultimately organizations have to consider at what point in time they should start thinking about putting it on their agenda and the associated trade-offs that comes with this. / <p>2021-06-06</p>

В работе изучена деятельность Федеральной таможенной службы России, объективно рассмотрены теоретические и практические аспекты применения таможенной процедуры таможенного транзита. Проанализирована работа и структура действующей автоматизированной системы контроля за процессами таможенного транзита, выявлены и обоснованы её недостатки. Изучены популярные методологии разработки информационных систем и системы управления рабочими процессами, проведён их сравнительный анализ по методу иерархий с целью выявления наилучших вариантов. Описан процесс разработки и преимущества новой автоматизированной системы, разработанной с применением Camunda BPM. / The paper examines the activities of the Federal Customs Service of Russia and objectively examines the theoretical and practical aspects of the customs transit procedure. The work and structure of the current automated system of control over customs transit processes are analysed, its shortcomings are identified and justified. Popular methodologies for developing information systems and workflow management systems have been studied, and a comparative analysis of them using the hierarchy method has been made in order to identify the best options. The development process and advantages of a new automated system developed using Camunda BPM are described.

There is a growing need to study factors that affect user comprehension of Business Process Management (BPM) information portrayed by graphical process models (GPMs). For example, deployment of BPM Systems, unique types of enterprise-level information systems, has dramatically increased in recent years. This increase is primarily because BPM Systems give a variety of managers across an enterprise the ability to directly design, configure, enact, monitor, diagnose, and control business processes that other types of enterprise systems do not. This is possible because BPM Systems uniquely rely on GPMs derived from formal graph theory. Besides controlling the business processes, these GPMs, such as metagraphs and Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagrams, portray business process information (BPI) and prompt BPM managers to apply their training and expertise to deal with BPM situations. As a result, GPMs are the primary information artifacts for decision-making and communication among different, often geographically dispersed stakeholders. Therefore, user comprehension of these unique GPMs is critical to the efficient and effective development, deployment, and utilization of BPM Systems. User comprehension outcomes are jointly affected by the (1) BPM cognitive resources available to each manager (including the type of GPM, BPI, and user educational training and experience), and (2) cognitive differences between individual BPM managers (such as their mental workload, cognitive styles and cognitive abilities). Although research has studied GPMs in various contexts, there is apparently no empirical research investigating GPM user comprehension in the context of BPM Systems. This research makes an important contribution by addressing this gap in the literature. Statement of the Objective: The purpose of this research is to empirically study how BPM cognitive resources and cognitive differences between individuals affect outcomes of GPM user comprehension. This research centered on the following objectives: A. Investigate whether more positive user comprehension outcomes are produced by novice users if a single GPM technique is used to portray different types of BPI (e.g., as with metagraphs) or if different GPM techniques are used to portray different types of BPI (e.g., as with UML diagrams). B. Investigate whether one type of BPI is more easily comprehended and interpreted by novice users irrespective of the type of GPM or the type of educational training of the user. C. Investigate whether users with a specific type of user educational training can more easily comprehend and interpret BPM information irrespective of the type of GPM or the type of BPI. D. Evaluate influences of individual cognitive differences (i.e., mental workload, cognitive styles, and cognitive abilities) on outcomes of user comprehension. In order to accomplish these objectives, this study: (a) defined a theoretical framework conceptualizing user comprehension outcomes in terms of the interaction between cognitive resources external to the user and individual differences affecting how users cognitively process BPI, (b) empirically tested an operational research model of GPM user comprehension that is based on the theoretical framework, and (c) interpreted the experimental results in the context of related literatures. Description of Research Methods: This study empirically tested relationships between several variables representing BPM cognitive resources and individual cognitive differences hypothesized as influencing the outcomes of user comprehension. A laboratory experiment, involving 87 upper-level undergraduate students from two universities, analyzed relationships between participant comprehension of two types of GPMs (i.e., metagraphs and UML diagrams) used to portray three types of BPI (i.e., task-centric, resource-centric, and information-centric BPI) by novice GPM users possessing different educational training (i.e., industrial engineering, business management, and computer science training). Dependent variables included assessments of task accuracy, task timeliness, subjective mental workload, and self-efficacy. Covariate effects were also analyzed for two types of participant cognitive abilities (i.e., general cognitive ability (GCA) and attentional abilities) and two types of participant cognitive styles (extroversion-introversion and sensing-intuitive). Multivariate analysis techniques were used to analyze and interpret the data. Discussion of Results: The type of GPM and participants' GCA produced significant effects on the dependent variables in this study. For example, metagraph users produced significantly more desirable results than UML users across all dependent variables, contrary to what was hypothesized. However, if only the BPM cognitive resources (i.e., GPM Type, BPM Type, and the Type of Participant Education) were studied in relation to user comprehension outcomes, spurious conclusions would have been reached. When individual cognitive differences were included in the research model and analyses, results showed participants with higher GCA produced significantly more positive user comprehension outcomes compared to participants with lower GCAs. Also, many of the impacts of differences in the types of BPI and the types of UET were moderated by the differences in participants' GCA and attentional abilities. In addition, the relationship between subjective mental workload and task performance (i.e., accuracy and timeliness) suggest a possible GPM cognitive "profile" for user comprehension tasks in a BPM Systems context. These results have important implications for future research and practice in several bodies of knowledge, including GPM user comprehension in management systems engineering, BPM modeling, BPM Systems, HCI, and cognitive ergonomics literature. / Ph. D.

Business process management (BPM) is a philosophical approach to organisation-wide management in which the focus is on the processes through which it operates, and in particular the streamlining and optimising of these processes, for which software solutions may be used. CTexT is an intrapreneurial software organisation that has been experiencing problems with software development due to a lack of formal processes relating to customer support, versioning, configuration, quality, risk and project management. The objective of the study is to determine whether the implementation of an electronic BPM system can effectively solve CTexT's development problems and thereby improve its overall software development capacity. More specifically, the focus is on i) the effect of the resulting standardisation on creativity and innovation, and ii) implementation matters, such as the type of processes that can be subjected to an electronic system, and how CTexT can overcome the time and cost constraints of such a system. The study investigates these questions by means of a literature investigation in combination with interviews with knowledgeable respondents from other innovative and software organisations. Interviews with six employees from CTexT determine the relevance of these findings and highlight critical areas for process improvement. Since BPM systems improve organisational efficiencies and are generally employed in larger corporate contexts marked by transactional and repetitive activities where they enforce administrative rules, the conclusion is drawn that a BPM system will not be suitable for an intrapreneurial organisation, and that it is likely to cause more disruption to the creative environment than improve its operations. It is further shown that although a BPM system is theoretically applicable to software development, it generally does not seem to be applied practically in the industry, and the suitability of this process as manageable through a BPM system is seriously questioned. Instead, the research points to improvement through the application of software development methodologies and a holistic approach towards BPM. The investigation at CTexT confirms that its development problems relate to flawed methodologies and that remedies should therefore focus on improving its methodologies and controlling certain aspects of the software development life cycle by means of suitable software tools. / Thesis (M.B.A.)--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2007

Em um ambiente de constante mudança, as organizações brasileiras precisam de ferramentas que lhes proporcionem vantagem competitiva no mercado. A gestão por processos de negócios ou BPM (Business Process Management) possibilita a execução da estratégia da organização, pois proporciona o alinhamento entre esta e os processos de negócio, sendo que este alinhamento pode colocar a organização em posições competitivas mais favoráveis. Neste contexto, de modo a verificar a importância desta abordagem de gestão no cenário atual, como diferencial para ganho de competitividade, o objetivo desta pesquisa é elaborar um instrumento que verifique o estado atual da gestão por processos nas organizações brasileiras. Sua viabilidade se dá a partir da identificação de questionários utilizados em outras pesquisas e aplicados às organizações. Porém nessa busca não foram encontrados, na literatura, instrumentos aplicados às organizações brasileiras com o objetivo de analisar o estado atual da gestão por processos. Dessa forma, foi escolhido um questionário modelo considerando o objetivo da análise e, a partir deste, foram feitas adaptações para a aplicação ao caso brasileiro conforme necessidades levantadas e viabilidade científica. O instrumento de pesquisa proposto é o único que investiga a relação entre processos e estratégia de negócio, gestão dos riscos de processos, modelos de referência e contribuição de tecnologia da informação adaptado para a realidade das organizações brasileiras. Além disso, esse instrumento possibilita medir o estado atual da gestão por processos no mercado nacional, para que os esforços das empresas sejam direcionados no sentido que garantam sua competitividade no mercado em que estão inseridas, e para que seja possível traçar um comparativo entre o cenário nacional e internacional da gestão por processos. A partir desses resultados, outros estudos podem ser propostos para auxiliar no entendimento do estado atual da gestão por processos nas organizações brasileiras, assim como estas também podem verificar quais são as lacunas e suas oportunidades de melhoria com relação a essa abordagem de gestão. Por outro lado, além da relevância atual e da inovação, cabe destacar as limitações dessa pesquisa relacionadas aos ajustes e aperfeiçoamentos do instrumento proposto, que podem surgir com a aplicação e análises futuras do instrumento, devido ao desenvolvimento científico do tema gestão por processos, ou devido às possíveis lacunas na base da literatura científica utilizada para nortear a sua construção. / In an environment of constant change, Brazilian organizations need tools that give them a competitive advantage in the market. The business process management or BPM (Business Process Management) enables the execution of the organization\'s strategy as it provides the alignment between this and the business processes, and this alignment can put the organization in more favorable competitive positions. In this context, in order to verify the importance of this management approach in the current scenario, as a differential to gain competitiveness, the objective of this research is to develop an instrument to check the current status of process management in organizations. Its viability is given based on the identification of questionnaires used in other studies and applied to organizations. But in this search were not found in the literature, instruments applied to Brazilian organizations in order to analyze the current state of process management. Thus, a questionnaire was chosen model considering the purpose of the analysis and, from this, adjustments were made to the application to the Brazilian case raised as needs and scientific feasibility. The survey instrument proposed is the only one that investigates the relationship between processes and business strategy, risk management processes, reference models and contribution of information technology to the process management in organizations. Furthermore, this instrument allows measuring the current state of process management in the domestic market, so that companies\' efforts are directed towards ensuring its competitiveness in the market in which they operate, and to be able to draw a comparison between the scenario national and international process management. From these results, further studies may be offered to encourage the promotion of process management in organizations, as these can also check what are the gaps and opportunities for improvement with respect to this management approach. Moreover, beyond the current relevance and innovation, we highlight the limitations of this research related to adjustments and refinements of the proposed instrument, which may arise with the application and further analysis of the instrument, due to the scientific theme of management by processes, or due to possible gaps in basic scientific literature used to guide its construction.

Mineração de processos é uma área de pesquisa relativamente recente que se situa entre mineração de dados e aprendizado de máquina, de um lado, e modelagem e análise de processos de negócio, de outro lado. Mineração de processos visa descobrir, monitorar e aprimorar processos de negócio reais por meio da extração de conhecimento a partir de logs de eventos disponíveis em sistemas de informação orientados a processos. O principal objetivo deste trabalho foi avaliar o contexto de aplicação de técnicas provenientes das áreas de inteligência computacional e de aprendizado de máquina, incluindo redes neurais artificiais. Para fins de simplificação, denominadas no restante deste texto apenas como ``redes neurais\'\'. e máquinas de vetores de suporte, no contexto de mineração de processos. Considerando que essas técnicas são, atualmente, as mais aplicadas em tarefas de mineração de dados, seria esperado que elas também estivessem sendo majoritariamente aplicadas em mineração de processos, o que não tinha sido demonstrado na literatura recente e foi confirmado por este trabalho. Buscou-se compreender o amplo cenário envolvido na área de mineração de processos, incluindo as principais caraterísticas que têm sido encontradas ao longo dos últimos dez anos em termos de: tipos de mineração de processos, tarefas de mineração de dados usadas, e técnicas usadas para resolver tais tarefas. O principal enfoque do trabalho foi identificar se as técnicas de inteligência computacional e de aprendizado de máquina realmente não estavam sendo amplamente usadas em mineração de processos, ao mesmo tempo que se buscou identificar os principais motivos para esse fenômeno. Isso foi realizado por meio de um estudo geral da área, que seguiu rigor científico e sistemático, seguido pela validação das lições aprendidas por meio de um exemplo de aplicação. Este estudo considera vários enfoques para delimitar a área: por um lado, as abordagens, técnicas, tarefas de mineração e ferramentas comumente mais usadas; e, por outro lado, veículos de publicação, universidades e pesquisadores interessados no desenvolvimento da área. Os resultados apresentam que 81% das publicações atuais seguem as abordagens tradicionais em mineração de dados. O tipo de mineração de processos com mais estudo é Descoberta 71% dos estudos primários. Os resultados deste trabalho são valiosos para profissionais e pesquisadores envolvidos no tema, e representam um grande aporte para a área / Mining process is a relatively new research area that lies between data mining and machine learning, on one hand, and business process modeling and analysis, on the other hand. Mining process aims at discovering, monitoring and improving business processes by extracting real knowledge from event logs available in process-oriented information systems. The main objective of this master\'s project was to assess the application of computational intelligence and machine learning techniques, including, for example, neural networks and support vector machines, in process mining. Since these techniques are currently widely applied in data mining tasks, it would be expected that they were also widely applied to the process mining context, which has been not evidenced in recent literature and confirmed by this work. We sought to understand the broad scenario involved in the process mining area, including the main features that have been found over the last ten years in terms of: types of process mining, data mining tasks used, and techniques applied to solving such tasks. The main focus of the study was to identify whether the computational intelligence and machine learning techniques were indeed not being widely used in process mining whereas we sought to identify the main reasons for this phenomenon. This was accomplished through a general study area, which followed scientific and systematic rigor, followed by validation of the lessons learned through an application example. This study considers various approaches to delimit the area: on the one hand, approaches, techniques, mining tasks and more commonly used tools; and, on the other hand, the publication vehicles, universities and researchers interested in the development area. The results show that 81% of current publications follow traditional approaches to data mining. The type of mining processes more study is Discovery 71% of the primary studies. These results are valuable for practitioners and researchers involved in the issue, and represent a major contribution to the area

Linha de Produto de Software (LP) é uma forma sistemática de promover a geração de produtos de software específicos baseados no reúso de uma infraestrutura bem definida. Conceitos de LP aplicados ao domínio de Gestão de Processos de Negócio (BPM - Business Process Management) já apresentaram resultados significativos, entretanto, o escopo de aplicação e os benefícios ainda são limitados. Essas limitações ocorrem, pois as abordagens de LP já existentes para BPM normalmente não cobrem todo o ciclo de vida de processos de negócio e não oferecem o devido tratamento aos aspectos dinâmicos que as organizações demandam para esse domínio. Linha de Produto de Software Dinâmica (LPD) é uma evolução das LPs tradicionais que tem proporcionado uma forma eficiente para lidar com adaptações de produtos em tempo de execução. LPDs podem ser aplicadas, por exemplo, no contexto de arquiteturas SOA (Service-oriented Architecture), que por sua vez podem ser usadas como base tecnológica para viabilizar BPM nas organizações. Dentro desse contexto, este trabalho propõe uma abordagem de LPD para atender as necessidades de organizações interessadas em realizar processos de negócio, por meio de um alinhamento entre conceitos de BPM e SOA. A abordagem proposta aqui, denominada Dynamic Product Line for Business Process Management (DynPL4BPM), visa ser abrangente o suficiente para cobrir todo o ciclo de vida de BPM, sendo previsto o tratamento de aspectos dinâmicos que o domínio de BPM requer. Uma avaliação sistemática e comparativa demonstrou que a abordagem proposta é bem sucedida em apresentar processos bem mais abrangentes que outras soluções similares já propostas na literatura para o mesmo fim. / Software Product Line (PL) is a systematic way to promote the generation of specific software products based on the reuse of a well-defined infrastructure. Concepts of PL applied to Business Process Management (BPM) have already presented significant results; however, the application scope and benefits are still limited. These limitations occur because the existing approaches of LP for BPM usually do not cover the entire lifecycle of business processes and do not provide proper treatment to the dynamic aspects that organizations demand for this domain. Dynamic Software Product Line (DPL) is an evolution of traditional PLs that has provided an efficient way to deal with adaptations of products at runtime. DPLs can be applied, for example, in the SOA (Service-oriented Architecture) context, which in turn can be used as technological basis to enable BPM within organizations. Within this context, this dissertation proposes a DPL approach to meet the needs of organizations interested in carrying out business processes by means of an alignment between BPM and SOA concepts. The approach proposed here, called Dynamic Product Line for Business Process Management (DynPL4BPM), aims to be comprehensive enough to cover the entire BPM lifecycle, including the treatment of dynamic aspects that the BPM domain requires. A systematic and comparative assessment showed that the proposed approach is successful in presenting processes much more comprehensive than other similar solutions already proposed in the literature for the same purpose.

Durant la dernière décennie, les architectures orientées services (SOA) d'une part et la gestion des processus business (BPM) d'autre part ont beaucoup évolué et semblent maintenant en train de converger vers un but commun qui est de permettre à des organisations complètement hétérogènes de partager de manière flexible leurs ressources dans le but d'atteindre des objectifs communs, et ce, à travers des schémas de collaboration avancée. Ces derniers permettent de spécifier l'interconnexion des processus métier de différentes organisations. La nature dynamique et la complexité de ces processus posent des défis majeurs quant à leur bonne exécution. Certes, les langages de description de chorégraphie aident à réduire cette complexité en fournissant des moyens pour décrire des systèmes complexes à un niveau abstrait. Toutefois, rien ne garantit que des situations erronées ne se produisent pas suite, par exemple, à des interactions "mal" spécifiées ou encore des comportements malhonnêtes d'un des partenaires. Dans ce manuscrit, nous proposons une approche décentralisée qui permet la supervision de chorégraphies au moment de leur exécution et la détection instantanée de violations de séquences d'interaction. Nous définissons un modèle de propagation hiérarchique pour l'échange de notifications externes entre les partenaires. Notre approche permet une génération optimisée de requêtes de supervision dans un environnement événementiel, et ce, d'une façon automatique et à partir de tout modèle de chorégraphie / Cross-organizational service-based processes are increasingly adopted by different companies when they can not achieve goals on their own. The dynamic nature of these processes poses various challenges to their successful execution. In order to guarantee that all involved partners are informed about errors that may happen in the collaboration, it is necessary to monitor the execution process by continuously observing and checking message exchanges during runtime. This allows a global process tracking and evaluation of process metrics. Complex event processing can address this concern by analyzing and evaluating message exchange events, to the aim of checking if the actual behavior of the interacting entities effectively adheres to the modeled business constraints. In this thesis, we present an approach for decentralized monitoring of cross-organizational choreographies. We define a hierarchical propagation model for exchanging external notifications between the collaborating parties. We also propose a runtime event-based approach to deal with the problem of monitoring conformance of interaction sequences. Our approach allows for an automatic and optimized generation of rules. After parsing the choreography graph into a hierarchy of canonical blocks, tagging each event by its block ascendancy, an optimized set of monitoring queries is generated. We evaluate the concepts based on a scenario showing how much the number of queries can be significantly reduced