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Business Processes

The management of Business Processes provides the opportunity to adjust an entire company towards its customers' needs. An efficient organization, a goal-oriented controlling and continuous enhancements form the elementary requirements. Business Processes itself are based on a series of single activities which can be performed by human beings and / or technical systems. The modeling of such workflows helps creating abstractions of complex Business Processes. This seminar covers a fundamental overview of methods for analyzing, designing, communicating, documenting and running real world Business Processes: How can they be mapped into computer systems?

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Topics

  • Introduction to Business Process Modeling
  • ARIS - Business Process Modeling (Overview)
  • ARIS - Business Process Modeling (Data Modeling)
  • Modeling Business Processes using UML
  • Modeling Business Processes using Petri Nets
  • Ontologies and Business Processes
  • Workflow Inheritance and Patterns
  • Workflow Evolution and Mining
  • SOA and Web Services
  • Orchestration and Synchronization of Web Services
  • Rule-based Modeling of Business Processes
  • Business Rules Management

Grading

50% Your paper (5,000 words)
25% 1 review of one of your fellow student's paper
25% 30 minutes of presentation and 10 minutes of discussion

Schedule

18.11.2008 Kick-Off Meeting
29.12.2008 Outline Submission
02.02.2009 Paper Submission
09.02.2009 Review Submission
15.02.2009 Presentation Submission
16.+17.02.2009
 Presentations
02.03.2009 Final Paper Submission

The seminar presentations take place as a block. If you have some trouble concerning the schedule just contact Stephan or Evren.

Registration

Please register directly using the "Vorlesungsverzeichnis" (HIS-LSF). You can additionally write Stephan or Evren if you have own exciting proposals of topics in Business Processes. The language of the course is English.