@inproceedings {INPROC-2017-27,
author = {C. Timurhan Sungur and Uwe Breitenb{\"u}cher and Oliver Kopp and Frank Leymann and Andreas Wei{\ss}},
title = {{Identifying Relevant Resources and Relevant Capabilities of Informal Processes}},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2017)},
publisher = {SciTePress},
institution = {Universit{\"a}t Stuttgart, Fakult{\"a}t Informatik, Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik, Germany},
pages = {295--307},
type = {Konferenz-Beitrag},
month = {April},
year = {2017},
keywords = {Informal Processes; Unstructured Processes; Resource Discovery; Capability Discovery; Relevant Resources; Relevant Capabilities},
language = {Englisch},
cr-category = {H.4.1 Office Automation, H.3.3 Information Search and Retrieval, H.3.4 Information Storage and Retrieval Systems and Software, H.5.3 Group and Organization Interfaces},
department = {Universit{\"a}t Stuttgart, Institut f{\"u}r Parallele und Verteilte Systeme, Anwendersoftware; Universit{\"a}t Stuttgart, Institut f{\"u}r Architektur von Anwendungssystemen},
abstract = {},
url = {http://www2.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/cgi-bin/NCSTRL/NCSTRL_view.pl?id=INPROC-2017-27&engl=0}
}
@inproceedings {INPROC-2016-28,
author = {C. Timurhan Sungur and Uwe Breitenb{\"u}cher and Oliver Kopp and Frank Leymann and Mozi Song and Andreas Wei{\ss} and Christoph Mayr-Dorn and Schahram Dustdar},
title = {{Identifying Relevant Resources and Relevant Capabilities of Collaborations - A Case Study}},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE 20th International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Workshop (EDOCW)},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
institution = {Universit{\"a}t Stuttgart, Fakult{\"a}t Informatik, Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik, Germany},
pages = {352--355},
type = {Demonstration},
month = {September},
year = {2016},
keywords = {Organizational performance; resource discovery; capability discovery; relevant resources; relevant capabilities; informal processes; unstructured processes},
language = {Englisch},
cr-category = {H.4.1 Office Automation, H.3.3 Information Search and Retrieval, H.3.4 Information Storage and Retrieval Systems and Software, H.5.3 Group and Organization Interfaces},
department = {Universit{\"a}t Stuttgart, Institut f{\"u}r Parallele und Verteilte Systeme, Anwendersoftware; Universit{\"a}t Stuttgart, Institut f{\"u}r Architektur von Anwendungssystemen},
abstract = {Organizational processes involving collaborating resources, such as development processes, innovation processes, and decision-making processes, typically affect the performance of many organizations. Moreover, including required but missing, resources and capabilities of collaborations can improve the performance of corresponding processes drastically. In this work, we demonstrate the extended Informal Process Execution (InProXec) method for identifying resources and capabilities of collaborations using a case study on the Apache jclouds project.},
url = {http://www2.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/cgi-bin/NCSTRL/NCSTRL_view.pl?id=INPROC-2016-28&engl=0}
}
@inproceedings {INPROC-2016-21,
author = {C. Timurhan Sungur and Uwe Breitenb{\"u}cher and Frank Leymann and Matthias Wieland},
title = {{Context-sensitive Adaptive Production Processes}},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 48th CIRP Conference on Manufacturing Systems},
publisher = {Elsevier},
institution = {Universit{\"a}t Stuttgart, Fakult{\"a}t Informatik, Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik, Germany},
series = {Procedia CIRP},
volume = {41},
pages = {147--152},
type = {Konferenz-Beitrag},
month = {Februar},
year = {2016},
doi = {10.1016/j.procir.2015.12.076},
keywords = {Process; Automation; Optimization; Adaptation},
language = {Englisch},
cr-category = {H.4.1 Office Automation, H.5.3 Group and Organization Interfaces},
department = {Universit{\"a}t Stuttgart, Institut f{\"u}r Parallele und Verteilte Systeme, Anwendersoftware; Universit{\"a}t Stuttgart, Institut f{\"u}r Architektur von Anwendungssystemen},
abstract = {To stay competitive, manufacturing companies need to adapt their processes in a regular basis to the most recent conditions in their corresponding domains. These adaptations are typically the result of turbulences, such as changes in human resources, new technological advancements, or economic crises. Therefore, to increase the efficiency of production processes, (i) automation, (ii) optimization, and (iii) dynamic adaptation became the most important requirements in this field. In this work, we propose a novel process modelling and execution approach for creating self-organizing processes: Production processes are extended by context-sensitive execution steps, for which sub-processes are selected, elected, optimized, and finally executed on runtime. During the election step, the most desired solution is chosen and optimized based on selection and optimization strategies of the respective processes. Moreover, we present a system architecture for modelling and executing these context-sensitive production processes.},
url = {http://www2.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/cgi-bin/NCSTRL/NCSTRL_view.pl?id=INPROC-2016-21&engl=0}
}
@inproceedings {INPROC-2015-56,
author = {C. Timurhan Sungur and Uwe Breitenb{\"u}cher and Frank Leymann and Johannes Wettinger},
title = {{Executing Informal Processes}},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications \& Services (iiWAS 2015)},
publisher = {ACM},
institution = {Universit{\"a}t Stuttgart, Fakult{\"a}t Informatik, Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik, Germany},
pages = {391--400},
type = {Konferenz-Beitrag},
month = {Dezember},
year = {2015},
keywords = {Informal processes; Agent-centered processes; Human-centric processes; Process execution; TOSCA; APIfication},
language = {Englisch},
cr-category = {H.4.1 Office Automation, H.5.3 Group and Organization Interfaces},
department = {Universit{\"a}t Stuttgart, Institut f{\"u}r Architektur von Anwendungssystemen},
abstract = {Processes involving knowledge workers, such as decisionmaking processes, research processes, development processes, maintenance processes, etc. play a critical role for many organizations because they represent a valuable amount of the work an organization delivers. Therefore, supporting and automating such processes is vitally important for organizations. In our previous work, we have proposed a resource-centric approach called Informal Process Essentials (IPE) to support and to provide a certain degree of automation. The approach enables specifying required resources including autonomous agents of an informal process for accomplishing process goals through creating and initializing IPE models. Initializing an IPE model results in the acquirement of resources that collaboratively work towards the goals specified by the model. In this work, we provide an approach to automating the enactment of such resource-centric informal processes in two steps: (i) integrating resources of informal processes and (ii) executing informal processes. The approach we introduce enables the inclusion of different resource domains, e.g., IT resources, human resources, etc., and resource deployment environments, e.g., OpenTOSCA, Docker, etc. to model and enact informal processes. During the execution, the resources made available through the integration are acquired and engaged for goals of modeled informal processes. To validate the introduced concepts, we apply the approach to a detailed case study that realizes these two steps based on existing approaches and technologies, in particular, the OpenTOSCA ecosystem, an knowledge base, and an APIfication approach.},
url = {http://www2.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/cgi-bin/NCSTRL/NCSTRL_view.pl?id=INPROC-2015-56&engl=0}
}
@inproceedings {INPROC-2015-53,
author = {C. Timurhan Sungur and Christoph Dorn and Schahram Dustdar and Frank Leymann},
title = {{Transforming Collaboration Structures into Deployable Informal Processes}},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 15th International Conference, ICWE 2015, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, June 23-26, 2015.},
publisher = {Springer International Publishing},
institution = {Universit{\"a}t Stuttgart, Fakult{\"a}t Informatik, Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik, Germany},
series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)},
volume = {9114},
pages = {231--250},
type = {Konferenz-Beitrag},
month = {Juni},
year = {2015},
isbn = {10.1007/978-3-319-19890-3_16},
keywords = {Informal process essentials; Human architecture description language; Wiki; Collaboration configuration; Transformation},
language = {Englisch},
cr-category = {D.2.2 Software Engineering Design Tools and Techniques, H.4.1 Office Automation},
contact = {sungur@iaas.uni-stuttgart.de},
department = {Universit{\"a}t Stuttgart, Institut f{\"u}r Architektur von Anwendungssystemen},
abstract = {Traditional workflow and activity-centric coordination offers limited process support to human collaborators when unanticipated situations predom- inate. Under such circumstances, informal processes focus on provisioning relevant resources for achieving collaboration goals. Resources include interaction mechanisms such as shared artifact, social networks, and publish/subscribe information dissemination as complex situations typically demand the close collaboration among multiple human process participants. Currently, however, there exists a gap between (i) selecting and configuring suitable interaction mechanisms (collaboration level) and (ii) deploying the respective collaboration platforms (IT level). In this paper, we present an approach and techniques for transforming collaboration structures into automatically deployable informal processes. We demonstrate how our tools support the specification of desirable collaboration capabilities subsequently deployed to multiple MediaWiki instances.},
url = {http://www2.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/cgi-bin/NCSTRL/NCSTRL_view.pl?id=INPROC-2015-53&engl=0}
}
@inproceedings {INPROC-2014-72,
author = {C. Timurhan Sungur and Tobias Binz and Uwe Breitenb{\"u}cher and Frank Leymann},
title = {{Informal Process Essentials}},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 18th IEEE Enterprise Distributed Object Conference (EDOC 2014)},
address = {Ulm},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
institution = {Universit{\"a}t Stuttgart, Fakult{\"a}t Informatik, Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik, Germany},
pages = {200--209},
type = {Konferenz-Beitrag},
month = {September},
year = {2014},
language = {Englisch},
cr-category = {H.4.1 Office Automation, K.1 The Computer Industry, H.1 Models and Principles},
department = {Universit{\"a}t Stuttgart, Institut f{\"u}r Architektur von Anwendungssystemen},
abstract = {Human-centric processes are part of most organizations and their execution steps are typically not known initially. Consequently, standard business process modeling approaches are not suitable for modeling informal processes because they typically concentrate on the explicit modeling of the execution steps. In this work, we analyze properties of informal processes and requirements for supporting their correct enactment. We review existing approaches and evaluate their suitability in terms of modeling informal processes. Based on these results, we present a resource-centric approach by employing the concept of Informal Process Essentials which is used to create executable informal process models with dynamically changing interrelated resources.},
url = {http://www2.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/cgi-bin/NCSTRL/NCSTRL_view.pl?id=INPROC-2014-72&engl=0}
}
@inproceedings {INPROC-2014-53,
author = {C. Timurhan Sungur and Oliver Kopp and Frank Leymann},
title = {{Supporting Informal Processes}},
booktitle = {The 6th Central European Workshop on Services and their Composition (ZEUS 2014)},
address = {Potsdam},
publisher = {CEUR-WS.org},
institution = {Universit{\"a}t Stuttgart, Fakult{\"a}t Informatik, Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik, Germany},
pages = {56--63},
type = {Workshop-Beitrag},
month = {Februar},
year = {2014},
keywords = {ad-hoc processes, informal processes, informal processes support model, informal process essentials, informal process recommendations},
language = {Englisch},
cr-category = {H.1 Models and Principles, K.1 The Computer Industry},
contact = {timurhan.sungur@iaas.uni-stuttgart.de},
department = {Universit{\"a}t Stuttgart, Institut f{\"u}r Architektur von Anwendungssystemen},
abstract = {People play an indispensable role in many tasks in various domains and they collaborate to accomplish those tasks. During these collaborations software tools are used, data is created/consumed and best practices might be applied. These a priori unknown informal processes are conducted with the help of experience of their actual performers. In this work, a new concept of supporting these informal processes will be introduced, i.e., Informal Process Support Model, consisting of Informal Process Essentials and Informal Process Recommendations, which support informal processes based on the previous executions without limiting their flexibility. Furthermore, we will introduce how these concepts can be realized with the use of Topology Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications (TOSCA).},
url = {http://www2.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/cgi-bin/NCSTRL/NCSTRL_view.pl?id=INPROC-2014-53&engl=0}
}
@inproceedings {INPROC-2013-37,
author = {C. Timurhan Sungur and Patrik Spiess and Nina Oertel and Oliver Kopp},
title = {{Extending BPMN for Wireless Sensor Networks}},
booktitle = {2013 IEEE International Conference on Business Informatics},
publisher = {IEEE},
institution = {Universit{\"a}t Stuttgart, Fakult{\"a}t Informatik, Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik, Germany},
pages = {109--116},
type = {Konferenz-Beitrag},
month = {Juli},
year = {2013},
doi = {10.1109/CBI.2013.24},
keywords = {WSN; BPMN; Extension; makeSense; MDD},
language = {Englisch},
cr-category = {H.4.1 Office Automation},
ee = {http://www.project-makesense.eu/},
department = {Universit{\"a}t Stuttgart, Institut f{\"u}r Architektur von Anwendungssystemen},
abstract = {Wireless sensor/actuator networks (WSNs) are hard to program, in particular so for business domain experts that have a good understanding of how WSNs can best be used to improve business operations. This contributes to hampering WSN adoption by enterprises. As business process modeling languages such as the Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) are well accessible to domain experts, they can be used as a tool to facilitate WSN programming. In this paper, we explore the properties of WSNs that set them apart from traditional IT systems and use these properties to derive requirements for BPMN extensions that are tailored to the specifics of WSNs. We furthermore propose a set of BPMN extensions that fulfill these requirements and demonstrate that they are better suited for modeling WSN processes than standard BPMN.},
url = {http://www2.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/cgi-bin/NCSTRL/NCSTRL_view.pl?id=INPROC-2013-37&engl=0}
}