Article in Proceedings INPROC-2011-65

BibliographyNowak, Alexander; Leymann, Frank; Schleicher, Daniel; Schumm, David; Wagner, Sebastian: Green Business Process Patterns.
In: Proceedings of the 18th Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs, PLoP 2011.
University of Stuttgart, Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Information Technology.
english.
ACM, October 21, 2011.
DOI: 10.1145/2578903.2579144.
Article in Proceedings (Conference Paper).
CR-SchemaH.4.1 (Office Automation)
KeywordsGreen IT; Green Patterns; Green Business Process Management; Environmental Impact
Abstract

To ensure their competitive advantage an increasing number of organizations adopt business process management for design, automation, and analysis of their business processes. In order to reduce cost, improve quality, save time, and increase flexibility, techniques for business process improvement and re-engineering are applied. Improving the environmental impact of a business process is a new challenge organizations are faced with. However, current approaches and techniques for business process optimization do not cover the ecological dimension explicitly. In this paper, we propose patterns which describe good solutions for green business process design to address this gap from a business perspective. The patterns are described independently from concrete business process modeling languages and execution environments in order to provide a broad applicability of the patterns within different scenarios. In addition to the patterns, we discuss the general usability of the patterns based on different aspects relevant to an organization.

Department(s)University of Stuttgart, Institute of Architecture of Application Systems
Project(s)S-Cube
SimTech
Entry dateAugust 22, 2011
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