process mining includes the automated discovery of petri nets from event logs. these event logs are the starting point for various discovery and analysis techniques of the process.  in this paper process model is developed using colored petri nets (cpns) and the supporting software package cpn tools. the restaurant process model is represented for the analysis using a combination of process min...

Business process simulation enables detail analysis of resource allocation strategies without actually deploying the processes. Although business process simulation has been widely researched in recent years, less attention has been devoted to automating the simulation of business processes with the help of evolutionary computation. Specifically, optimum resource assignment for business process...

Increasingly, organisations need to adapt to new conditions and competitive pressures. Various change management approaches such as business process reengineering have been developed to meet this perceived need. This paper investigates the potential of simulation modelling for modelling business processes. After a discussion on business processes related issues, an overview of business process ...

Every action a business process performs must be explicitly anticipated, designed for and implemented by business professionals. Most of the current techniques specify business processes (BP) without incorporating all four Ws; Who, When, What and Where. These processes when used especially in logistics or supply chain applications will result in a BP becoming even more complicated and harder to...

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 p...

Although workflow has been widely used to support the modeling and execution of business process, the majority of current workflow management systems are not designed and suited for supporting dynamic business processes. One of the deficiencies is the inability to model realistically the organization of an enterprise to manage the dynamic human-centric business processes. A framework for workfl...

This paper presents an implementation case study for business-centric SOA test framework. The reference architecture of SOA system is usually layered: business process layer, service layer, and computing resource layer. In the architecture, there are so many subsystems to affect system performance, moreover they relate with each other. As a result, in the respect of overall performance, it is u...

Business process models extracted from real event data via process mining are often visually complex and hard to interpret, cannot easily display all of the relevant process data in one view, and are of unknown quality. It is therefore difficult to present a meaningful comparison of two mined process models, for example to confirm business changes have had a significant effect. We propose a fra...

In order to meet the requirement of a broad support of inter-organisational business processes, a smooth integration into existing business applications is necessary. Standardisation initiatives such as ebXML promise to provide a framework for flexible process and data interoperability among businesses. This is used as the basis for the development of the openXchange reference architecture desc...