The content of this thesis is analysis and design Planning software using agile software development methodology for small and middle size projects. I focused primary on specific work products of roles Analytic and Project manager laid down by selected methodology. Created solution can be used as project documentation for the subsequent development of application itself. The result of this thesis allow the reuse of this principles and practices to future projects of similar scope.

Business process management is important topic in business information systems. Workflow systems are taking the top places in company information system architecture due to aspiration to make business process more and more optimized. This project is about parallel processing and implementation of business processes parallel processing in complex information systems. Content of this project is o function and object library for modeling business process in Vema, a. s. Workflow system. Important part of this project is parallel processing solution and its implementation.

The goal of this research is to develop a new paradigm integrating the practices of business process modeling and use case modeling. These two modeling approaches describe the behavior of organizations and systems, and their interactions, but rest on different paradigms and serve different needs. The base of knowledge and information required for each approach is largely common, however, so an integrated approach has advantages in efficiency, consistency and completeness of the overall behavioral model. Both modeling methods are familiar and widely used. Business process modeling is often employed as a precursor to the development of a system to be used in a business organization. Business process modeling teams and stakeholders may spend months or years developing detailed business process models, expecting that these models will provide a useful base of information for system designers. Unfortunately, as the business process model is analyzed by the system designers, it is found that information needed to specify the functionality of the system does not exist in the business process model. System designers may then employ use case modeling to specify the needed system functionality, again spending significant time with stakeholders to gather the needed input. Stakeholders find this two-pass process redundant and wasteful of time and money since the input they provide to both modeling teams is largely identical, with each team capturing only the aspects relevant to their form of modeling. Developing a new paradigm and modeling approach that achieves the objectives of both business process modeling and use case modeling in an integrated form, in one analysis pass, results in time savings, increased accuracy and improved communication among all participants in the systems development process. Analysis of several case studies will show that inefficiency, wasted time and overuse of stakeholder resource time results from the separate application of business process modeling and use case modeling. A review of existing literature on the subject shows that while the problem of modeling both business process and use case information in a coordinated fashion has been recognized before, there are few if any approaches that have been proposed to reconcile and integrate the two methods. Based on both literature review and good modeling practices, a list of goals for the new paradigm and modeling approach forms the basis for the paradigm to be created. A grounded theory study is then conducted to analyze existing modeling approaches for both business processes and use cases and to provide an underlying theory on which to base the new paradigm. The two main innovations developed for the new paradigm are the usage process and the timebox. Usage processes allow system usages (use cases) to be identified as the business process model is developed, and the two to be shown in a combined process flow. Timeboxes allow processes to be positioned in time-relation to each other without the need to combine processes into higher level processes using causal relations that may not exist. The combination of usage processes and timeboxes allows any level of complex behavior to be modeled in one pass, without the redundancy and waste of separate business process and use case modeling work. Several pilot projects are conducted to test the new modeling paradigm in differing modeling situations with participants and subject matter experts asked to compare the traditional models with the new paradigm formulations.

The COVID-19 pandemic has seriously impacted the global economy, especially port trade. The port of Jiujiang was hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. Jiujiang port is an important port in China's inland rivers, an important hub of the regional transportation system, and an important port for foreign trade and plays a great role in economic development.This article uses a questionnaire survey to find that the factors affecting ports during the COVID-19 pandemic include an increase in COVID-19 diagnosis, a decline in demand, and rising port costs. These factors are analyzed using the BPMN model and BMC model. The BPMN model describes the container handling process in Jiujiang Port and is used to analyze the increase in COVID-19 diagnosis. BMC's Western Europe tour describes the corporate structure of Jiujiang Port. It is used to analyze the decline in demand and rising port costs.The measures of Jiujiang Port Use electronic communication instead of human contact, Port expansion, and building big data platform are used to deal with these three factors affecting the port. These measures are analyzed using SWOT analysis to analyze their strengths, weaknesses, challenges, and opportunities. Improvements to these measures are proposed. Requiring ships and ports to communicate electronically, build big data platforms, and expand ports were measures taken by Jiujiang Port as response measures to the COVID-19 Pandemic. Recommended measures for digitalization are: provide digital training for employees, increase data communication with other ports and enterprises, make thorough plans, complete the realization of intelligent scenarios, and pay attention to government countermeasures and market changes.

Les organisations contemporaines collaborent de plus en plus avec leurs partenaires. Cette dimension ouverte leur permet d'être plus réactives face aux changements que leur imposent leurs environnements. La caractéristique de la collaboration est due, pour les entreprises, au nouvel environnement économique, qui fait de l'interopérabilité et l'agilité deux des principaux résultats que les entreprises doivent atteindre. Ce contexte correspond au cadre global de nos travaux, qui porte sur la question suivante : Comment concevoir une architecture orientée services dirigée par le métier dans le cadre d'une collaboration inter-organisationnelle ?L'intérêt de ce travail est de proposer une méthode qui assure l'efficacité et l'efficience d'une collaboration, en utilisant les principes de BPM et SOA pour dépasser les barrières conceptuelle et technologique de l'interopérabilité. On explique comment identifier, spécifier et réaliser les processus et les services de collaboration entre différents participants. Pour cela, on adopte une vision transversale de l'entreprise centrée sur les processus métiers. Ensuite, l'approche MDA est utilisée comme un fil conducteur pour synchroniser les modèles des processus métiers découverts à l'aide de l'approche BPM avec ceux des services identifiés avec la démarche SOA. Dans ce schéma, les processus métiers assurent l'interopérabilité au niveau métier tandis que l'utilisation des services réutilisables, des standards et des architectures préconisés par SOA soutiennent l'interopérabilité au niveau IT.Cette méthode se base sur un style de modélisation hiérarchique avec des diagrammes de haut niveau qui sont ensuite enrichis à des niveaux plus bas

This diploma thesis is dedicated to the examination of maturity levels of the rescue service of the central bohemian region. Furthermore to using the results of the examination to formulate recomandations in order to ease possible effort of the management to introduce approaches of the process management into the organization. Levels of maturity are examined by the factors identified by Mike Hammer in his PEMM (Process and Enterprise Maturity Model) model. Whole document is logically divided into four parts. The first part consists of detail description of the organization from three different angles. Purpose of the organization, strategic goals of the management and the organizational structure. Second part includes global and detail business process models created by the MMABP (Methodology for Modelling and Analysis of Business Process) by prof. Ing. Václav Řepa Csc. The models are created in the BPMN (Business Process Modelling Notation) and Eriksson-Penker notation. There are also included process interfaces and object lifecycles in the second part. Third part is where the comparison of described reality and the PEMM model factors of maturity is being made. All the maturity levels of the factors are argumented here as well. In the last part of this document, there is a presentation of the recomandations concluded from the previous comparison.

Le travail que nous présentons dans cette thèse s’inscrit dans une problématique générale des EIAH. Il s’intéresse plus particulièrement aux Massives Open Online Courses (MOOC) et concerne plus précisément l’activité de conception de scénarios pédagogiques par des enseignants dans les environnements MOOC connectivistes (cMOOC). Le but principal est de proposer une approche, des modèles et des outils pour assister les enseignants dans le processus de scénarisation et d’opérationnalisation des scénarios pédagogiques dans le contexte des cMOOC. Afin de répondre à ces besoins, la première partie de cette thèse est consacrée à la spécification du processus de création et de déroulement d’un cMOOC. La deuxième partie du manuscrit est consacrée au modèle cORPS de description de scénarios pédagogiques orientés cMOOC.Pour réifier nos propositions, nous avons développé un outil de scénarisation pédagogique adapté au contexte des cMOOC, appelé MOOCAT. Cet outil est doté d’un service de déploiement automatique des scénarios pédagogiques et exploite la notion de workflow à travers la réutilisation et l’adaptation de la notation BPMN. Finalement, l’environnement MOOCAT a été expérimenté auprès de différents publics d’un point de vue utilité et utilisabilité. Les résultats obtenus permettent de confirmer que MOOCAT permet de concevoir des scénarios pédagogiques connectivistes. Les feedbacks des participants ont souligné particulièrement sa simplicité d’utilisation et le bénéfice d’avoir un outil de scénarisation visuelle. / The work presented in this thesis is part of a broader issue of Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) field. It is particularly interested in Massive Open online Courses (MOOC) environments and concerns more specifically the activity of designing and conceiving pedagogical scenarios by teachers in connectivist MOOC (cMOOC).The main goal is to provide an approach, models and tools to assist teachers in the scenario conception process and the operationalization of pedagogical scenarios in a cMOOC context.In order to meet these needs, the first part of this thesis is devoted to specification of the cMOOC creation and execution process describing the involved stakeholders and the characteristics of each process step. The second part of the manuscript is consecrated to the cORPS model, which describes and defines a cMOOC-oriented pedagogical scenario.To reify our proposals, we have developed an authoring environment for cMOOC context, called MOOCAT. One of the specific characteristics of our tool lies in the exploitation and reuse of the BPMN notation. This tool and the associated operationalization service are covered in the third part of this manuscript.Finally, different publics of practitioners tested MOOCAT notably from a utility and usability point of view. The obtained findings confirm that MOOCAT can be used to design connectivist pedagogical scenarios and provide all the necessary elements for the design of such courses. Feedback from participants particularly highlighted its ease of use and the benefit of a visual authoring tool.

Business process modeling plays an important role for the documentation and analysis of organizational processes and for the specification of requirements for information systems. Currently, there are many standards for process modeling, and each represents a different approach to modeling and provides different opportunities for creating models. Thus, same models created in different modeling languages differ in terms of their expressiveness, according to each standard. The goal of this thesis is to evaluate the effectiveness of selected business process modeling standards. The effectiveness of standards will be evaluated on two levels. First, in terms of their semantics and second, in terms of their syntax. Evaluation of standards in terms of their semantics will be based on the comparison of standards with a business process metamodel created within the project Opensoul. This model defines a set of basic elements and their associations at a basic level of process modeling. Evaluation of standards in terms of their syntax will be based on the comparison of standards with a framework proposed by Moody and Hillegersberg. The results of this comparison should show which standard best supports defined criteria. The evaluation framework will be applied on the following process modeling standards: BPMN, EPC and IDEF3. Based on the results obtained their strength and weaknesses will be discussed. The main contribution of this thesis can be seen both in the analysis of the element set of selected process modeling standards and further in the comparison of standards according to the evaluation framework.

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.

Les travaux présentés dans cette thèse ont porté sur l'étude de faisabilité technique et logicielle du système i-GUIDE, système interactif de guidage des personnes dans les hypermarchés. Nous avons détaillé l'analyse fonctionnelle du besoin du système. Ensuite, nous avons étudié l'impact de l'intégration du système dans le magasin à travers le diagramme BPMN. Nous avons opté pour l'approche UML pour décrire les principales fonctionnalités de notre système ainsi que les objets nécessaires pour son bon fonctionnement. Une architecture du système i-GUIDE, basée sur la technologie RFID avec une application sous Android, a été présentée. Par ailleurs, nous avons proposé des approches d'optimisation de parcours dans un hypermarché basées sur la méthode de recherche tabou pour deux problèmes. Pour le premier problème, nous avons choisi le critère de la plus courte distance pour la détermination du chemin et pour le deuxième nous avons ajouté une contrainte de temps pour des articles en promotion. Avant de chercher le chemin le plus court à parcourir pour trouver les articles existants dans la liste de courses, nous avons proposé une méthode pour ladétermination des distances entre les articles de l'hypermarché pris deux à deux