Submitted by Silvana Teresinha Dornelles Studzinski (sstudzinski) on 2016-10-06T16:29:28Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Maurício de Oliveira Saraiva_.pdf: 6467007 bytes, checksum: 7a0d95202fd7af8fa777e0b1cb5f6fb0 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-10-06T16:29:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Maurício de Oliveira Saraiva_.pdf: 6467007 bytes, checksum: 7a0d95202fd7af8fa777e0b1cb5f6fb0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-07-28 / UNICO - Universidade Corporativa dos Correios / A evolução da tecnologia tem permitido um suporte cada vez melhor à disciplina de gerenciamento de processos de negócio (BPM). A automação de práticas, a partir de ferramentas de modelagem, possibilita construir modelos visando apoiar as organizações no desenho e gerenciamento de seus processos. Em BPM, a transformação e melhoria contínua de processos são fundamentais para o gerenciamento da organização e os modelos de processos de negócio devem acompanhar essa evolução. Para realizar a composição desses modelos, seja pela transformação de um ou mais processos ou pela fusão de organizações, analistas usam as técnicas disponíveis na literatura. Porém, frequentemente elas são consideradas imprecisas ao não assegurar a correta integração dos modelos. Consequentemente, compor modelos de processos de negócio se torna uma tarefa difícil, custosa e propensa a erros, uma vez que as técnicas existentes criam modelos compostos difíceis de entendimento baseados em grafos e notação genérica que não correspondem à realidade do mercado de trabalho. Portanto, este trabalho propõe uma técnica de composição de modelos de processos de negócio que reúne, em uma única fonte, o conjunto das técnicas mais utilizadas na literatura, bem como dá suporte à composição de modelos direcionada para uma notação largamente conhecida e utilizada pelas organizações. Além disso, propõe a implementação de uma ferramenta, baseada nessa técnica, que foi criada para definir a similaridade e apoiar a integração de modelos de forma semiautomática. Por fim, estudos experimentais foram realizados com analistas que resolveram seis cenários de composição de modelos, tanto de forma manual como com o apoio dessa ferramenta, cujo resultado mostrou que a técnica proposta, de fato, melhora a precisão e reduz o esforço de composição, proporcionando redução de custos e aumento de produtividade. / The evolution of technology has allowed an increasingly better support to the discipline of business process management (BPM). The automation of practices from modeling tools, allows building models to support organizations in the design and management of its processes. In BPM, the transformation and continuous improvement of methods are fundamental to the management of the organization and models of business processes should follow this evolution. To perform the merge of these models, by the transformation of one or more processes, or by merging of organizations, software analysts use the techniques available in the literature. However, frequently they are considered imprecise, by not ensuring the correct integration of models. Consequently, merging business processes models becomes a difficult, error prone task, since existing techniques create composite models difficult to understand based on graphs and generic notation that does not match to the industrial reality. Therefore, this study proposes a merging technique of business process models that combines in a single source, some of the most used techniques available in the literature, and supports merging of models directed to a notation widely known and used by organizations. Furthermore, it also proposes the implementation of a tool, based on this technique, which was created to define the similarity and support the integration of models in a semi-automatic way. Lastly, experimental studies were performed with analysts who solved six scenarios of merging models, both manually and with the help of this tool. The result showed that the proposed technique, in fact, improves the accuracy and reduces composition effort, providing cost savings and increased productivity.

Šių dienų verslo pasaulis yra konkurencingas kaip niekad. Naujos rinkos, sparčiai besiskverbiančios technologijos į verslo sektorių, internetas, tiesiog priverčia keisti nusistovėjusį požiūri į verslą ir organizavimą bei į visą tai pažvelgti kitu kampu. Šiame darbe pateikiama veiklos procesų, jų modeliavimo galimybių bei notacijų pritaikomumo šių dienų rinkai analizė. Analizuojamos modeliavimo notacijų galimybės ir pajėgumas, pritaikomumas bei efektyvumas projektuojant veiklos procesus. Apžvelgiami veiklos žodyno reikalingumo ir naudingumo aspektai. Analizuojami esami veiklos procesų ir veiklos žodynų sinchronizacijos sprendimai. Atlikus išsamią standartų bei esamų spendimų analize buvo nustatyta jog nėra daugiafunkcinio algoritmo kuris vykdytų šiuos veiksmus: veiklos procesų diagramos formavimas remiantis turimu veiklos žodynu, veiklos žodyno sudarymas remiantis veiklos procesų diagrama bei veiklos procesų diagramos ir veiklos žodyno sinchronizacija tarpusavyje remiantis veiklos žodynu. Darbo tiklsas – veiklos procesų ir veiklos žodyno įvairiapusė sinchronizacija, pateikiamas algoritmo projektas, modeliai, veikimo aprašymai. Siekiamas rezultatas – organizacijos veiklos žodyno su veiklos procesais sinchronizacijos algoritmo prototipas. Suprojektuotas algoritmas paremtas SBVR (Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Rules) standartu, BPMN notacija bei sukurtomis taisyklėmis reikalingoms įgyvendinti norimą algoritmo funkcionalumą. Eksperimento metu buvo sukurti atsitiktinių... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / In today's business world is as competitive as ever. New markets, technology is rapidly penetrating into the business sector, the Internet, just makes the shift in the approach to business and organization as well as the whole is to look at a different angle. This paper presents the operational processes of modeling opportunities and notations applicability of the present day market analysis. Analyzed the possibility of modeling notations and performance, adaptability and efficiency of the design of business processes. An overview of the activities dictionary necessity and utility aspects. Analysis of existing business processes and activities dictionaries synchronization solutions. After a comprehensive standards and existing solutions in the analysis it was found that there is a multi-algorithm has the following steps: business process chart formation on the basis of the available business dictionary dictionary of business processes based on activity diagrams and business process diagrams and activity dictionary sync with each other on the basis of activity dictionary. Work purpose - business processes and performance dictionary versatile synchronization, the algorithm designs, models, operation resumes. To achieve the desired result - the organization's business processes with a dictionary synchronization algorithm prototype. Designed algorithm based on SBVR (Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Rules) standard BPMN notation, and developed the rules required to implement... [to full text]

Submitted by Fabio Sobreira Campos da Costa (fabio.sobreira@ufpe.br) on 2016-08-18T12:06:50Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) [BPMG] Santana_Tese - vFinal.pdf: 4399647 bytes, checksum: bf6190517d388436edf4bd95b245d442 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-18T12:06:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) [BPMG] Santana_Tese - vFinal.pdf: 4399647 bytes, checksum: bf6190517d388436edf4bd95b245d442 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-08-18 / Governança em BPM (Busines Process Management) é um aspecto frequentemente apontado como fundamental para o sucesso efetivo do gerenciamento de processos de negócio nas organizações. Isso parece ser especialmente verdade no contexto do setor público, onde a eficiência, prestação de contas e transparência (três princípios básicos da governança) precisam ser coordenadas. No entanto, as abordagens de governança em BPM têm se caracterizado por apresentarem conceitos complexos e pouco precisos, com visões bastante variadas sobre o tema, e modelos em alto nível que oferecem pouca ajuda sobre como implementá-la. Além disso, há um número reduzido de trabalhos empíricos descrevendo relatos práticos de implementação de governança em BPM. Assim, há uma escassez de modelos detalhados e consistentes nos quais praticantes e pesquisadores possam se basear. À vista dessa necessidade, essa tese teve como objetivo desenvolver e avaliar um modelo conceitual para apoiar a implantação da governança em BPM, chamado Modelo BPMG. Inicialmente, foram realizados estudos de caso exploratórios para levantamento de barreiras e facilitadores que influenciavam a governança em BPM em organizações do setor público que conduziam iniciativas de BPM. Constatou-se que as organizações não compreendiam precisamente o que é a governança em BPM nem tratavam explicitamente questões relacionadas mesmo quando conduzindo projetos de BPM. O modelo BPMG foi construído numa abordagem de design-science research contemplando também a criação de uma ferramenta de software que implementou elementos do modelo visando sua aplicação numa organização do setor público. Tanto o Modelo BPMG quanto a ferramenta tiveram sua aplicabilidade avaliada por integrantes do escritório de processos da organização pesquisada e por especialistas em governança de diferentes organizações. O resultado da avaliação apontou que o Modelo BPMG ajudou os praticantes de BPM da organização a desenvolverem um entendimento mais preciso e compartilhado da governança em BPM e foi percebido como significativamente útil para guiar a implantação dessa governança na organização. / BPM (Business Process Management) Governance is an aspect often seen as critical to the success of BPM in organizations. This seems to be especially true for the public sector, where efficiency, accountability and transparency (three basic governance principles) must be coordinated. However, governance approaches in BPM have been characterized as complex and imprecise, with quite different views on the subject, in addition to macro level models that provide little help on how to implement it. Moreover, there is a small number of empirical papers describing practical reports on BPM governance. Therefore, there is a lack of consistent and detailed conceptual frameworks and concrete applications that researchers and practitioners can rely on to properly address BPM Governance. In light of such need, this thesis presents a conceptual model to support the implementation of governance in BPM, named BPMG Model. Initially, exploratory case studies were performed to identify barriers and facilitators that impact the deployment of BPM governance in public sector organizations conducting BPM initiatives. It was observed that studied organizations do not precisely understand the concept of BPM governance. The conception of the BPMG model adopted a design-science research approach and also encompassed the development of a software tool that implemented model elements. Both the BPMG Model and the software tool were evaluated by the members of a BPM Office from a Brazilian public organization and by a group of governance experts from different organizations. Evaluation results revealed that the BPMG Model and tool supported BPM practitioners of the organization to develop a more accurate and shared understanding of governance in BPM. In particular, the model was considered as significantly helpful for the implementation of governance principles in the organization.

The diploma thesis deals with the issue of business process optimization in the company Antee s.r.o. The author has been working for this company for two years and he got a lot of experience with this kind of business processes. The business process optimization is very actual topic in every company because there are always many opportunities for its improvement. The aim of this thesis is to analyze the current status of business processes in the company Antee s.r.o. Then design their optimization for solving tasks much faster. The business process analysis is focused only on Helpdesk department. The contribution of the work is primarily in analyzing selected business processes and the usage of the proposal in the process. The introduction of the proposed solution should reduce the number of requests handled by Helpdesk as well as to offer customers a new service options.

The aim of this thesis is a lay of the business processes in Vodárenska akciová společnost, a.s. In theoretical part of the thesis are describe characteristics, mapping and modeling of processes in this company. In practical part are mapping processes, which this company make in order for their customers and daily processes, whereby sustains own infrastructure.

L'évolution rapide dans les environnements métier d'aujourd'hui impose de nouveaux défis pour la gestion efficace et rentable des processus métiers. Dans un tel environnement très dynamique, la conception des processus métiers devient une tâche fastidieuse, source d'erreurs et coûteuse. Par conséquent, l'adoption d'une approche permettant la réutilisation et l'adaptabilité devient un besoin urgent pour une conception de processus prospère. Les modèles de processus configurables récemment introduits représentent l'une des solutions recherchées permettant une conception de processus par la réutilisation, tout en offrant la flexibilité. Un modèle de processus configurable est un modèle générique qui intègre de multiples variantes de procédés d'un même processus métier à travers des points de variation. Ces points de variation sont appelés éléments configurables et permettent de multiples options de conception dans le modèle de processus. Un modèle de processus configurable doit être configuré selon une exigence spécifique en sélectionnant une option de conception pour chaque élément configurable.Les activités de recherche récentes sur les modèles de processus configurables ont conduit à la spécification des langages de modélisation de processus configurables comme par exemple configurable Event-Driven Process Chain (C-EPC) qui étend la notation de l'EPC avec des éléments configurables. Depuis lors, la question de la conception et de la configuration des modèles de processus configurables a été étudiée. D'une part, puisque les modèles de processus configurables ont tendance à être très complexe avec un grand nombre d'éléments configurables, de nombreuses approches automatisées ont été proposées afin d'assister leur conception. Cependant, les approches existantes proposent de recommander des modèles de processus configurables entiers qui sont difficiles à réutiliser, nécessitent un temps complexe de calcul et peuvent confondre le concepteur du processus. D'autre part, les résultats de la recherche sur la conception des modèles de processus configurables ont mis en évidence la nécessité des moyens de soutien pour configurer le processus. Par conséquent, de nombreuses approches ont proposé de construire un système de support de configuration pour aider les utilisateurs finaux à sélectionner les choix de configuration souhaitables en fonction de leurs exigences. Cependant, ces systèmes sont actuellement créés manuellement par des experts du domaine qui est sans aucun doute une tâche fastidieuse et source d'erreurs .Dans cette thèse, nous visons à automatiser le soutien de la variabilité dans les modèles de processus configurables. Notre objectif est double: (i) assister la conception des processus configurables d'une manière à ne pas confondre les concepteurs par des recommandations complexes et (i) assister la création des systèmes de soutien de configuration afin de libérer les analystes de processus de la charge de les construire manuellement. Pour atteindre le premier objectif, nous proposons d'apprendre de l'expérience acquise grâce à la modélisation des processus passés afin d'aider les concepteurs de processus avec des fragments de processus configurables. Les fragments proposés inspirent le concepteur du processus pour compléter la conception du processus en cours. Pour atteindre le deuxième objectif, nous nous rendons compte que les modèles de processus préalablement conçus et configurés contiennent des connaissances implicites et utiles pour la configuration de processus. Par conséquent, nous proposons de bénéficier de l'expérience acquise grâce à la modélisation et à la configuration passées des processus afin d'aider les analystes de processus dans la construction de leurs systèmes de support de configuration. / Today's fast changing environment imposes new challenges for effective management of business processes. In such a highly dynamic environment, the business process design becomes time-consuming, error-prone, and costly. Therefore, seeking reuse and adaptability is a pressing need for a successful business process design. Configurable reference models recently introduced were a step toward enabling a process design by reuse while providing flexibility. A configurable process model is a generic model that integrates multiple process variants of a same business process in a given domain through variation points. These variation points are referred to as configurable elements and allow for multiple design options in the process model. A configurable process model needs to be configured according to a specific requirement by selecting one design option for each configurable element.Recent research activities on configurable process models have led to the specification of configurable process modeling notations as for example configurable Event-Driven Process Chain (C-EPC) that extends the EPC notation with configurable elements. Since then, the issue of building and configuring configurable process models has been investigated. On the one hand, as configurable process models tend to be very complex with a large number of configurable elements, many automated approaches have been proposed to assist their design. However, existing approaches propose to recommend entire configurable process models which are difficult to reuse, cost much computation time and may confuse the process designer. On the other hand, the research results on configurable process model design highlight the need for means of support to configure the process. Therefore, many approaches proposed to build a configuration support system for assisting end users selecting desirable configuration choices according to their requirements. However, these systems are currently manually created by domain experts which is undoubtedly a time-consuming and error-prone task.In this thesis, we aim at automating the support of the variability in configurable process models. Our objective is twofold: (i) assisting the configurable process design in a fin-grained way using configurable process fragments that are close to the designers interest and (ii) automating the creation of configuration support systems in order to release the process analysts from the burden of manually building them. In order to achieve the first objective, we propose to learn from the experience gained through past process modeling in order to assist the process designers with configurable process fragments. The proposed fragments inspire the process designer to complete the design of the ongoing process. To achieve the second objective, we realize that previously designed and configured process models contain implicit and useful knowledge for process configuration. Therefore, we propose to benefit from the experience gained through past process modeling and configuration in order to assist process analysts building their configuration support systems. Such systems assist end users interactively configuring the process by recommending suitable configuration decisions.

Most organizations have traditionally been organized by function, and most coordination is intrafunctional rather than interfunctional. However, many organizations are finding that they must also manage processes - such as order fulfillment, new product development, and interorganizational supply chain management - that span their separate functional units and that integrate their activities with those of other organizations. These processes are essential to the well-being of organizations in a dynamic competitive environment.In response to this, organizations are deploying large-scale enterprise information systems in order to support operational, tactical, and strategic decision making, along with information management. However, deployment of such information systems has not realized the requisite benefits due to issues such as lack of interoperability among applications due to technological evolution, constant changes to the business processes, evolving organizational structures, inherent complexity in management of distributed knowledge and resources.To ameliorate such issues, a recent technological trend is the adoption of support tools such as Workflow Management Systems (WFMS) and groupware to support coordination between individual and group knowledge worker activities respectively. While WFMSs mostly deal with tasks involving very structured information, groupware tools deal with tasks involving unstructured information. Due to these differences, such tools are used in a fragmented manner, causing information loss. The overall guiding design principles that can be used by such process support systems are minimal, resulting in costly overheads for organizations.This dissertation deals with the problems highlighted above from a organizational process design standpoint. The goal of the dissertation is to provide process designers with guidelines and tools that can assist them in modeling flexible and adaptable processes. The following two research questions are central to the work described in this dissertation: (1) How can organizational processes be designed to be flexible andadaptable in dynamic environments? (2) How can collaborative activities be designed to facilitate integration with individual activities in organizational processes?In this regard, this dissertation reports on the development of a conceptual framework to support design of organizational processes considering both individual and collaboration tasks in a unified manner. A business process is modeled as a problem solving mechanism consisting of a series of steps (also termed as process model, process definition or plan), each of which may be an individual or group activity. The task of designing business processes is considered as the development of an effective plan to solve a business process problem by searching the design space. We employ declarative formalisms from recent advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) planning to support the task of process design. Similarly, we build on research in the field of Collaboration Engineering (CE), to propose an approach for collaborative task design. The feasibility and benefits of the approach are evaluated by prototyping intelligent build time tools for process design, and utilizing the same in the design of processes such as loan processing, and new drug discovery.

The importance of collaboration has been recognized for more than 2000 years. While recent improvement in technology creates vast opportunities for collaboration, effective collaboration remains challenging as ad hoc teams work across time, geographical, language, and technical boundaries, and suffer from process inefficiency. My dissertation addresses part of these challenges by proposing theoretical frameworks for business collaboration and process management. Case study is used as a research strategy for this thesis and it consists of three studies. The first study proposes a process modeling framework to support efficient process model design via model transformation and validation. First, we divide process modeling into three layers and formally define three layers of workflow models. Then, we develop a procedure for transforming a conceptual process model into its corresponding logical process model. Third, we create a validation procedure that can validate whether the derived logical model is consistent with its original conceptual model. The second study proposes a framework for analyzing the relationship between interaction processes and collaboration efficiency in software issue resolution in open source community. We first develop an algorithm to identify frequent interaction process structures referred to as interaction process patterns. Then, we assess patterns' impact through a time-dependent Cox regression model. By applying the interaction process analysis framework to software issue resolution processes, we identify several patterns that are significantly correlated with collaboration efficiency. We further conduct a case study to validate the findings of pattern efficiency in software issue resolution. The third study addresses the issue of suitability of virtual collaboration. Virtual collaboration seems to work well for some cases, but not for others. We define collaboration virtualization as the suitability for a task to be conducted virtually and propose a Collaboration Virtualization Theory (CVT) to explain collaboration virtualization. Three categories (i.e., task, technology, and team) of constructs that determine the suitability of collaboration virtualization are derived from a systematic literature review of related areas. In summary, this dissertation addresses challenges in collaboration and process management, and we believe that our research will have important theoretical and practical impacts on the development of collaboration management systems.

The goal of this paper is to benchmark Answer Set Programming (ASP) systems to test their performance when dealing with a complex optimization problem. In particular, the problem tackled is resource allocation in the area of Business Process Management (BPM). Like many other scheduling problems, the allocation of resources and starting times to business process activities is a challenging optimization problem for ASP solvers. Our problem encoding is ASP Core-2 standard compliant and it is realized in a declarative and compact fashion. We develop an instance generator that produces problem instances of different size and hardness with respect to adjustable parameters. By using the baseline encoding and the instance generator, we provide a comparison between the two award-winning ASP solvers clasp and wasp and report the grounding performance of gringo and i-dlv. The benchmark suggests that there is room for improvement concerning both the grounders and the solvers. Fostered by the relevance of the problem addressed, of which several variants have been described in different domains, we believe this is a solid application-oriented benchmark for the ASP community. / Series: Working Papers on Information Systems, Information Business and Operations

Research report (M.Com. (Information Systems))--University of the Witwatersrand, Faculty of Commerce, Law and Management, School of Economic and Business Sciences, 2013. / Using the resource based view of the firm theory, a research model is proposed that explains how IT governance capability results in improved firm performance by improving a firm’s IT Infrastructure capabilities and business processes. The research model is explored by means of case study where a survey is undertaken with the key stakeholders of a global Corporate and Investment Bank. Data was collected and analysed from 140 respondents using an online survey. The model hypotheses were not tested. The respondents’ characteristics (role, region, business area and length of experience) were explored providing greater insight and confirmation of the general relationship between the variables. The case study confirmed the general relationships of the model except the training capability - firm performance relationship. The IT governance process formality moderator provided results that were in contradiction to expectations. The IT intensity moderator confirmed the general relationship. The strength or weaknesses of the relationships when analysing the respondent characteristics are insightful and would not normally have been available if a multi-site survey had been performed.