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CAISE
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
A weighted coupling metric for business process models
Various efforts recently aimed at the development of quality metrics for process models. In this paper, we propose a new notion of coupling, which has been used successfully in so...
Irene T. P. Vanderfeesten, Jorge Cardoso, Hajo A. ...
BPM
2007
Springer
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14 years 6 months ago
Process Mining Based on Clustering: A Quest for Precision
Process mining techniques attempt to extract non-trivial and useful information from event logs recorded by information systems. For example, there are many process mining techniqu...
Ana Karla Alves de Medeiros, Antonella Guzzo, Gian...
BPM
2007
Springer
134views Business» more  BPM 2007»
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Mining Process Execution and Outcomes - Position Paper
Organizational processes in general and patient-care processes in particular, change over time. This may be in response to situations unpredicted by a predefined business process m...
Mor Peleg, Pnina Soffer, Johny Ghattas
BPM
2007
Springer
125views Business» more  BPM 2007»
14 years 6 months ago
Semantic Analysis of Flow Patterns in Business Process Modeling
Control flow elements are important in process models. Such elements usually appear in graphic models as splits and joins of activity sequences. Workflow patterns reflect possible ...
Pnina Soffer, Yair Wand, Maya Kaner
WCRE
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Parametric Process Model Inference
Legacy applications can be difficult and time-consuming to understand and update due to the lack of modern abstraction mechanisms in legacy languages, as well as the gradual dete...
Saurabh Sinha, G. Ramalingam, Raghavan Komondoor
ISPW
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
An Algebraic Approach for Managing Inconsistencies in Software Processes,
To produce quality software and evolve them in an economic and timely fashion, enactable software process models are used for regulating development activities with the support of ...
Qiusong Yang, Mingshu Li, Qing Wang, Guowei Yang, ...
ICEIS
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Performing Business Process Redesign with Best Practices: An Evolutionary Approach
Although extensive literature on BPR is available, there is still a lack of concrete guidance on actually changing processes for the better. In this paper we propose and detail out...
Mariska Netjes, Selma Limam Mansar, Hajo A. Reijer...
EDOC
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Getting Rid of the OR-Join in Business Process Models
Abstract— In practice, the development of process-aware information systems suffers from a gap between conceptual business process models and executable workflow specifications...
Jan Mendling, Boudewijn F. van Dongen, Wil M. P. v...
ISPW
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Scoping Software Process Models - Initial Concepts and Experience from Defining Space Standards
Defining process standards by integrating, harmonizing, and standardizing heterogeneous and often implicit processes is an important task, especially for large development organiza...
Ove Armbrust, Masafumi Katahira, Yuko Miyamoto, J&...
IEEESCC
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Mining Process Variants: Goals and Issues
Recently, Process-Aware Information Systems (PAIS) were introduced, which allow for dynamic process and service changes. This, in turn, has led to a large number of process model ...
Chen Li, Manfred Reichert, Andreas Wombacher