Recently, research on quality issues of business process models has begun to investigate the process of process modeling, i.e., the process of creating process models. In particular, it has been recognized that during this process, well-functioning communication between domain experts and system analysts is essential for understandable process models. This paper proposes the LiProMo approach to...

Business process modeling is the act of making explicit organizational knowledge about working procedures. Process models are diagrams that communicate activities, their routing order, documents, and responsibilities in visual graphs. Process models are created by modeling experts, such as business analysts and consultants. Experts of the domain, e.g. clerks and managers, share their knowledge ...

The effective management of failure risk of buried infrastructure assets requires knowledge of their current condition, their rate of deterioration, the expected consequences of their failure and the owner's (decision-maker) risk tolerance. Fuzzy-based techniques seem to be particularly suited to modeling the deterioration of buried infrastructure assets, for which data are scarce, cause-effect...

Mathematical process models can assist process development and optimization in many different ways. This chapter discusses the different types and attributes of process models, and offers some ideas to consider when developing, using, and implementing them. Process models range from empirical to mechanistic in nature and vary in complexity from simple analytical solutions to coupled, 3-D transi...

The Software Engineering Institute (SEI), located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is a federally funded research and development center operated by Carnegie Mellon University under contract to the Department of Defense. An SEI objective is to provide leadership in software engineering and in the transition of new software engineering technology into practice. This paper discusses a software proces...

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. In this paper, we present an extensio...

Web services and BPM have become a combination research aiming at enterprize computing providing a more intelligent and interactive services as processaware systems. In particular, with the emergence of BPEL4WS as a de-facto industrial standard for process grounding technology, Web services become the building blocks for the final process execution. However, really combining those two topics is...

Gamification is a recent trend concerned with the use of game design elements in nongame applications. This PhD research proposal discusses the use of gamification for business process modeling in participative BPM scenarios. To that extent, a modeling tool allowing users to earn points and badges and compare themselves with others on a leaderboard is described. A discussion of initial, mixed r...

A business process is the set of activities and decision rules required to accomplish an operational objective. Examples include fulfilling an order, manufacturing a product, fielding a technical support phone call, or even launching a rocket. A process model provides an analytical framework for describing the activities and their relationships in detail. It extends the concept of business proc...