An important step to improving processes is first understanding them. I report here a case study in process understanding using the process modeling language Interact. I illustrate both the language and the process iteratively, somewhat in the way it might actually be done, and then provide the completed model. I close with lessons to be drawn from this study about understanding and improving p...

The Inequality Process (IP) is a competition process that models the dynamics of personal income and wealth at the micro (individual person) and macro (distribution) levels. At the micro level, it is a particle system. It has a macro model in terms of the parameters of the micro model, a gamma pdf that approximates the stationary distribution of the micro model. Randomly paired particles compet...

Paper one “IDEF*: a comprehensive modeling methodology for the development of manufacturing enterprise systems” [1] discusses the IDEF* modeling methodology which is used to reduce the incompatibility between the models and help modeling maintenance. The paper also gives information on the structure and various components of the supporting software tool that is used. Paper two “A knowledge-base...

In this paper, agent based process management model is proposed, which is for the process management of knowledge worker and service workers in order to establish the basis for the new knowledge management system. In this paper, we applied several methods from 6 sigma and PSP for process definition, process execution, and process measurement. This study attempts to improve the process execution...

The formalization of process definitions has been an invaluable aid in many domains. However, noticeable variations in processes start to emerge as precise details are added to process definitions. While each such variation gives rise to a different process, these processes might more usefully be considered as variants of each other, rather than completely different processes. This paper propos...

This chapter presents a process modeling approach for holistic process management. The main idea is that domain specific process models are required both to capture the contents of a process based application and to present a process model in a user friendly way. We presents how perspective oriented process modeling supports domain specific process model. Besides we describe how this approach c...

With the increasing adoption of process-aware information systems (PAIS), large process model repositories have emerged. Over time respective models have to be re-aligned to the real-world business processes through customization or adaptation. This bears the risk that model redundancies are introduced and complexity is increased. If no continuous investment is made in keeping models simple, ch...

Software testing is still a pain-in-the-neck for many organisations. Because it is only marginally addressed in software process improvement models like CMM, a separate Testing Process Improvement model is needed. The current authors have implemented a structured testing process guided by the “Testing Maturity Model” (TMM). An outline of this model is presented, showing how with growing maturit...

Research on quality issues of business process models has recently begun to explore the process of creating process models. With growing complexity, the creation of business process models requires the presence of several, potentially spatially distributed stakeholders. As a consequence, the question arises how this affects the process of process modeling. This paper describes a thesis working ...