Article in Proceedings INPROC-2011-26

BibliographyNiedermann, Florian; Radeschütz, Sylvia; Mitschang, Bernhard: Design-Time Process Optimization through Optimization Patterns and Process Model Matching.
In: Proceedings of the 12th IEEE Conference on Commerce and Enterprise Computing (CEC).
University of Stuttgart, Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Information Technology.
pp. 48-55, english.
IEEE Computer Society, November 10, 2011.
Article in Proceedings (Conference Paper).
CR-SchemaH.4.1 (Office Automation)
KeywordsBusiness Process Analytics; Business Process Design; Business Process Management; Business Process Optimization; Process Model Matching
Abstract

The goal of process design is the construction of a process model that is a priori optimal w.r.t. the goal(s) of the business owning the process. Process design is therefore a major factor in determining the process performance and ultimately the success of a business. Despite this importance, the designed process is often less than optimal. This is due to two major challenges: First, since the design is an a priori ability, no actual execution data is available to provide the foundations for design decisions. Second, since modeling decision support is typically basic at best, the quality of the design largely depends on the ability of business analysts to make the ”right” design choices. To address these challenges, we present in this paper our deep Business Optimization Platform that enables (semi-) automated process optimization during process design based on actual execution data. Our platform achieves this task by matching new processes to existing processes stored in a repository based on similarity metrics and by using a set of formalized best-practice process optimization patterns.

Full text and
other links
IEEE XPlore
Contactflorian.niedermann@ipvs.uni-stuttgart.de
Department(s)University of Stuttgart, Institute of Parallel and Distributed Systems, Applications of Parallel and Distributed Systems
Project(s)BIA
DBOP
Entry dateMay 2, 2011
   Publ. Department   Publ. Institute   Publ. Computer Science