Business Process Modeling

Course Id: 099330

Academic Year 2017/2018

Prof. Giuseppe POZZI

Course Description

Students

Master Course in Computer Engineering (all the Tracks)

Goals

The course aims at providing students with a deep knowledge on business process modelling and enactment. Acquired skills will enable students to: analyze a business process, model it, and execute it by a workflow management system (WfMS); focus on the basic features of a WfMS; know the state of the art and the new frontiers of ongoing research on process modeling, new applications domains, and WfMSs.

Typical teaching mix
Hours of lesson: 32
Hours of practical lessons/exercises: 16

Course outline

Major topics are:

Business process modelling: identification, description (WIDE conceptual model, UML, BPMN), and enactment
Workflow management systems
Standards and recommendations
Legal issues

Practical lessons

Practical lessons will be delivered by Giuseppe Pozzi.

Examinations

Examinations consist of a written test, an oral discussion, and a presentation or a project. The written test and the oral discussion lead to a maximum of 25 points: presentations or projects lead to a maximum of 8 points. The grand total of available points is 33, corresponding to "30 e LODE".
During lesson time (October-January), students may give one presentation on a topic related to the course topics and defined by the teacher: template files for the Powerpoint presentation can be found at the following link (zip file).
Alternatively, students may present a project which consists of the implementation of a real business process by a workflow management system: the topic and the complexity of the project will be defined by the teacher.

Past written examinations

Examination of January 31st, 2017: file (Jan 31st, 2017)
Examination of February 14th, 2017: file (Feb 14th, 2017)
Examination of June 26th, 2017: file not available (June 26th, 2017)
Examination of July 10th, 2017: file not available (July 10th, 2017)
Examination of September 08th, 2017: file not available (Sep 08th, 2017)
Examination of January 15th, 2018: file (Jan 15th, 2018)
Examination of Febraury 05th, 2018: file (Feb 05th, 2018)

On line materials

Slides from the lessons (.pdf format)

Slides from the lessons and from the practical exercises are available to registered students, only. To download the teaching material, please proceed to the Beep site and register: within a couple of days after your registration, the teacher will enable you to access the material.

Slides from the labs (.pdf format)

Slides from the labs are available to registered students, only. To download the teaching material, please proceed to the Beep site and register: within a couple of days after your registration, the teacher will enable you to access the material.

References

Books and papers

Grefen P. (editor), et al., Database Support for Workflow Management: The Wide Project, Kluwer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, February 1999, ISBN 0-792-38414-8
WfMC - the Workflow Management Coalition
Mello Ferreira A., Pozzi G., Workflow Management Systems - Exercise Book, Esculapio, Bologna, 2012, ISBN 978-88-7488-549-7
Dumas M, La Rosa M, Mendling J., Reijers H: Fundamentals of Business Process Management, Springer 2013, ISBN 978-3-642-33143-5
Reichert M., Weber B.: Enabling Flexibility in process-Aware Information Systems, Springer 2013, ISBN 978-3-642-30408-5

van der Aalst W., van Hee K., Workflow Management Models, Methods, and Systems, March 2004, MIT press, ISBN 0-262-72046-9
Layna Fischer (editor), The Workflow Handbook 2004, Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC), ISBN 0-9703509-6-1
Layna Fischer (editor), BPM and Workflow Handbook 2008, Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC), ISBN 978-09777527-6-8
Alonso G., Casati F., Kuno H., Machiraju V., Web Services: Concepts, Architectures and Applications, October 2003, Springer Verlag, ISBN 3540440089
M. Weske: Business Process Management: Concepts, Languages, Architectures 2007, XIV, 368 p. 265 illus., Hardcover; ISBN: 978-3-540-73521-2

Internet resources

UML - Unified Modeling Language: activity diagrams
- OMG UML (vers. 2.5) - starting from printed page 371 (page 413 of the PDF file)
- Spark Systems - some examples
- UML-diagrams - actions, controls, objects, and examples
BPMN - Business Process Modeling Notation
BPMI - Business Process Management Initiative
HP Process Manager - the WfMS by HP
IBM WebSphere - the WfMS by IBM
openflow - an open source WfMS
JBPM - Java Business Process management
TWEditor - Together Workflow Editor, an X-PDL compliant editor
TWServer - Together Workflow Engine, coupled to TWEeditor

Contacts

Como Campus
Teacher: prof. Giuseppe Pozzi, via Anzani 42, second floor, Como Campus.
Office hours: Tuesday from 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 a.m.
Phone 031 332.7332, – email: ( indma

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