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Markus Nuttgens - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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ARIS Architecture and Reference Models for Business Process Management
Business Process Management: Models, Techniques, and Empirical Studies, 2000Co-Authors: August-wilhelm Scheer, Markus Nuettgens, Markus NuttgensAbstract:In this article a general business Process Architecture is presented, which is based on the Architecture of Integrated Information Systems (ARIS) and which is composed of the four levels of Process engineering, Process planning and control, workflow control and application systems. The ARIS-House of Business Engineering encompasses the whole life-cycle range: from business Process design to information technology deployment, leading to a completely new Process-oriented software concept. At the same time, the Architecture bridges the gap between business Process modeling and workflow-driven applications, from Business Process Reengineering to Continuous Process Improvement.
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Business Process Management - ARIS Architecture and Reference Models for Business Process Management
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2000Co-Authors: August-wilhelm Scheer, Markus NuttgensAbstract:In this article a general business Process Architecture is presented, which is based on the Architecture of Integrated Information Systems (ARIS) and which is composed of the four levels of Process engineering, Process planning and control, workflow control and application systems. The ARIS-House of Business Engineering encompasses the whole life-cycle range: from business Process design to information technology deployment, leading to a completely new Process-oriented software concept. At the same time, the Architecture bridges the gap between business Process modeling and workflow-driven applications, from Business Process Reengineering to Continuous Process Improvement.
Mathias Weske - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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CAiSE - Analyzing business Process Architectures
Notes on Numerical Fluid Mechanics and Multidisciplinary Design, 2013Co-Authors: Rami-habib Eid-sabbagh, Mathias WeskeAbstract:In recent years, Business Process Management has gained maturity in private and public organizations. Organization own large Process collections. Organizing, analyzing, and managing them becomes more complex. In the course of this development, research on Business Process Architectures has gotten more attention over the last decade. A Business Process Architecture describes the relationships between business Processes within a Process collections as well as the guidelines to organize them. However, formalization and verification techniques are still missing in this context. To overcome this gap we propose a novel Petri net based Business Process Architecture formalization. Based on this, we can resort to known Petri net verification techniques for the analysis of Business Process Architectures patterns and anti-patterns in regard to their structural and behavioral properties. Our methodology is evaluated on a real use case from the public administration.
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business Process Architecture use and correctness
Business Process Management, 2012Co-Authors: Ramihabib Eidsabbagh, Remco Dijkman, Mathias WeskeAbstract:Becoming more and more Process oriented, companies develop collections of hundreds or even thousands of business Process models that represent the complex system of cooperating entities that form an organization. Designing and analyzing the structure of this system of business Process models emerges as a new challenge, which is covered by the field of business Process Architecture. This paper presents a formal conceptual framework for representing and analyzing business Process Architectures. It identifies patterns of relations between Process models, and it introduces anti-patterns that represent erroneous relations between them. The conceptual framework and the patterns are evaluated using a real-world Process model collection. The evaluation shows that explicitly representing and analyzing relations between Process models can help improving the correctness and consistency of the business Process Architecture as a whole.
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BPM - Business Process Architecture: use and correctness
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2012Co-Authors: Rami-habib Eid-sabbagh, Remco Dijkman, Mathias WeskeAbstract:Becoming more and more Process oriented, companies develop collections of hundreds or even thousands of business Process models that represent the complex system of cooperating entities that form an organization. Designing and analyzing the structure of this system of business Process models emerges as a new challenge, which is covered by the field of business Process Architecture. This paper presents a formal conceptual framework for representing and analyzing business Process Architectures. It identifies patterns of relations between Process models, and it introduces anti-patterns that represent erroneous relations between them. The conceptual framework and the patterns are evaluated using a real-world Process model collection. The evaluation shows that explicitly representing and analyzing relations between Process models can help improving the correctness and consistency of the business Process Architecture as a whole.
Stewart Green - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Aligning riva-based business Process Architectures with business goals using the i* framework
2013Co-Authors: Yousra Odeh, Mohammed Odeh, Stewart GreenAbstract:The i* framework has been widely used to derive business Process models as an attempt to fulfill business strategies in the business/IT environment. However, in a dynamic environment the derivation methods do not easily adapt to radical changes required either in goals or Process models due to the absence of a business Process Architecture that permits business Processes improvement. The current approaches for business Process Architecture modelling, and particularly the Riva-based method, lack the integration of business goals for both deriving the Process of business Process Architecture development and/or aligning business goals to a pre-existing business Process Architecture model. In this paper, we propose a novel approach that is i*-based to align a Riva business Process Architecture with business goals, and vice versa, with full traceability in both directions to tackle the above shortcomings. This approach has been initially evaluated using the Cancer Detection pilot study in the Cancer Care and Registration Process in Jordan. This goal-driven alignment has demonstrated a systematic bridging of the gap between goal-oriented and business Process models in a dynamic environment. Moreover, the business goals integration has improved the Riva business Process Architecture development Process and produced new knowledge for the as-is Riva Process Architecture and its associated business Process models, where many are run as software services. Keywords-Goal;Riva; Business Process Architecture; i* Framework; Business Process Model.
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Comparative Process Architectures in two higher education institutions
International Journal of Organisational Design and Engineering, 2013Co-Authors: Ian Beeson, Stewart Green, Richard KammAbstract:Enterprises are increasingly organising their activities and IT support around key business Processes. These Processes and their interrelationships may be identified in a Process Architecture. Ould (2005) claims that the Riva method identifies the Process Architecture that an organisation should have, and asserts that organisations in the same business have the same Process Architecture. This assertion is not self-evidently true, and it has not been corroborated by the literature. But it is an important claim: if true, then Process Architectures could be reused either for new Process development, or for appraising an organisation’s existing Architecture. We assessed the assertion by comparing the Process Architectures produced by applying Riva to two higher education institutions. The results partially support the view that an essential Process Architecture underpins higher education institutions, and also that for regulated business domains the optimal Process Architecture may be one based upon designed as well as essential business entities. The conclusion is that Process Architecture reuse, with its attendant potential savings of time and money, is worth investigating further, even though the extent to which the invariant assertion is testable may not be clear yet.
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Process Architectures in higher education
2010Co-Authors: Ian Beeson, Stewart Green, Richard KammAbstract:We have used the business Process modelling method ‘Riva’ to model Processes of programme management in two UK universities. The method depends on the identification of ‘essential business entities’ as the basis for defining a Process Architecture. The author of the method claims that organisations in the same business will have the same Process Architecture. In two attempts to produce Process Architectures for our case organisations, we could not produce any convergence in the outcomes. The exercise was however useful, as is the method. We make some suggestions regarding a core Architecture for the area of activity under study, and make some observations on the method and the concepts used in it.
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A framework for classifying and evaluating Process Architecture methods
Software Process: Improvement and Practice, 2005Co-Authors: Stewart Green, Martyn A. OuldAbstract:Piecemeal identification, development, and support of an organisation's Processes may lead to problems: first, it may be difficult to identify which Processes should be supported, and, second, it is unlikely that Processes developed piecemeal will either optimise the achievement of an organisation's objectives, or work well together. One solution involves identifying and modelling an organisation's Process Architecture, and then using it to develop and subsequently support the constituent Processes. However, this solution leads to a new challenge: a number of different types of Process Architecture method have been proposed, but it is not clear which should be used in a given situation. To address this challenge, the article outlines a framework for classifying, evaluating, and comparing Process Architectures. Following the work of Rolland et al.(1998), the proposed framework considers Process Architecture methods from four different views: contents, form, purpose, and lifecycle. To partially validate the framework, it was used to classify and evaluate Riva (Ould 2005), a particular Process Architecture method. The result of this application of the framework suggests how it might be refined. It could then be used for comparing other Process Architecture methods. Such a comparative analysis should help practitioners choose between Process Architecture methods. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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CAiSE Workshops (2) - The Primacy of Process Architecture.
2004Co-Authors: Stewart Green, Martyn A. OuldAbstract:Piecemeal development and support for organisational Processes may lead to problems: first, it is difficult to know which Processes should be supported, and, second, it is unlikely that piecemeal Processes will work well together. The solution seems to lie in first developing a coherent Process Architecture. However, this raises a further problem: a number of different types of Process Architecture have been proposed, but it is not clear which one should be used in a given situation. To help to address this problem, the paper describes and evaluates one particular Process Architecture type and its associated development method, Riva [3]. The method was used to create a Process Architecture for part of a University faculty. It was found to be easy to apply, and, in addition, the resulting Process Architecture was found to be easy to understand and to use. This result should help others to decide which type of Architecture to use when this kind of domain context is encountered.
Kemper Lewis - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Impact of Process Architecture on Equilibrium Stability in Distributed Design
Journal of Mechanical Design, 2011Co-Authors: Erich Devendorf, Kemper LewisAbstract:In distributed design Processes, individual design subsystems have local control over design variables and seek to satisfy their own individual objectives, which may also be influenced by some system level objectives. The resulting network of coupled subsystems will either converge to a stable equilibrium or diverge in an unstable manner. In this paper, we study the dependence of system stability on the solution Process Architecture. The solution Process Architecture describes how the design subsystems are ordered and can be either sequential, parallel, or a hybrid that incorporates both parallel and sequential elements. In this paper, we demonstrate that the stability of a distributed design system does indeed depend on the solution Process Architecture chosen, and we create a general Process Architecture model based on linear systems theory. The model allows the stability of equilibrium solutions to be analyzed for distributed design systems by converting any Process Architecture into an equivalent parallel representation. Moreover, we show that this approach can accurately predict when the equilibrium is unstable and the system divergent when previous models suggest that the system is convergent. [DOI: 10.1115/1.4004463]
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Incorporating Process Architecture in the Evaluation of Stability in Distributed Design
Volume 5: 37th Design Automation Conference Parts A and B, 2011Co-Authors: Erich Devendorf, Kemper LewisAbstract:In distributed design Processes, individual design subsystems have local control over design variables and seek to satisfy their own individual objectives, which may also be influenced by some system level objectives. The resulting network of coupled subsystems will either converge to a stable equilibrium, or diverge in an unstable manner. In this paper, we study the dependence of system stability on the solution Process Architecture. The solution Process Architecture describes how the design subsystems are ordered and can be either sequential, parallel, or a hybrid that incorporates both parallel and sequential elements. In this paper we demonstrate that the stability of a distributed design system does indeed depend on the solution Process Architecture chosen and we create a general Process Architecture model based on linear systems theory. The model allows the stability of equilibrium solutions to be analyzed for distributed design systems by converting any Process Architecture into an equivalent parallel representation. Moreover, we show that this approach can accurately predict when the equilibrium is unstable and the system divergent when previous models suggest the system is convergent.Copyright © 2011 by ASME
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Development of a Distributed Design Toolkit for Analyzing Process Architectures
Scopus, 2010Co-Authors: Erich Devendorf, Phil Cormier, Kemper LewisAbstract:The distribution of a complex system design problem into smaller, coupled subsystem problems creates a number of research and implementation challenges, including determining the most appropriate Process Architecture. Here the term Process Architecture refers to the order in which design subsystems solve their individual optimization problem. While methods have been proposed to model specific distributed Process Architectures, analyzing the impact of a wide range of Process Architectures on solution quality, convergence, and stability still remains a difficult task. To address this, we introduce a toolkit that enables the modeling and analysis of distributed design Process Architectures using basic sequential, parallel, and hybrid elements. Features of the toolkit are described and its use in studying solution characteristics including quality, convergence, and stability is discussed. The toolkit allows for users to create and analyze possible Processes Architectures using graphical interfaces.
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EXAMINING INTERACTIONS BETWEEN SOLUTION Architecture AND DESIGNER MISTAKES
Volume 1: 36th Design Automation Conference Parts A and B, 2010Co-Authors: Erich Devendorf, Kemper LewisAbstract:When designing complex systems, it is often the case that a design Process is subjected to a variety of unexpected inputs, interruptions, and changes. These disturbances can create unintended consequences including changes to the design Process Architecture, the planned design responsibilities, or the design objectives and requirements. In this paper a specific type of design disturbance, mistakes, is investigated. The impact of mistakes on the convergence time of a distributed multi-subsystem optimization problem is studied for several solution Process Architectures. A five subsystem case study is used to help understand the ability of certain Architectures to handle the impact of the mistakes. These observations have led to the hypothesis that selecting distributed design Architectures that minimize the number of iterations to propagate mistakes can significantly reduce their impact. It is also observed that design Architectures that converge quickly tend to have these same error damping properties. Considering these observations when selecting distributed design Architectures can passively reduce the impact of mistakes.
August-wilhelm Scheer - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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ARIS Architecture and Reference Models for Business Process Management
Business Process Management: Models, Techniques, and Empirical Studies, 2000Co-Authors: August-wilhelm Scheer, Markus Nuettgens, Markus NuttgensAbstract:In this article a general business Process Architecture is presented, which is based on the Architecture of Integrated Information Systems (ARIS) and which is composed of the four levels of Process engineering, Process planning and control, workflow control and application systems. The ARIS-House of Business Engineering encompasses the whole life-cycle range: from business Process design to information technology deployment, leading to a completely new Process-oriented software concept. At the same time, the Architecture bridges the gap between business Process modeling and workflow-driven applications, from Business Process Reengineering to Continuous Process Improvement.
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Business Process Management - ARIS Architecture and Reference Models for Business Process Management
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2000Co-Authors: August-wilhelm Scheer, Markus NuttgensAbstract:In this article a general business Process Architecture is presented, which is based on the Architecture of Integrated Information Systems (ARIS) and which is composed of the four levels of Process engineering, Process planning and control, workflow control and application systems. The ARIS-House of Business Engineering encompasses the whole life-cycle range: from business Process design to information technology deployment, leading to a completely new Process-oriented software concept. At the same time, the Architecture bridges the gap between business Process modeling and workflow-driven applications, from Business Process Reengineering to Continuous Process Improvement.