@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 = {University of Stuttgart, Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Information Technology, Germany},
pages = {295--307},
type = {Conference Paper},
month = {April},
year = {2017},
keywords = {Informal Processes; Unstructured Processes; Resource Discovery; Capability Discovery; Relevant Resources; Relevant Capabilities},
language = {English},
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 = {University of Stuttgart, Institute of Parallel and Distributed Systems, Applications of Parallel and Distributed Systems;
University of Stuttgart, Institute of Architecture of Application Systems},
abstract = {},
url = {http://www2.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/cgi-bin/NCSTRL/NCSTRL_view.pl?id=INPROC-2017-27&engl=1}
}
@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 = {University of Stuttgart, Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Information Technology, 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 = {English},
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 = {University of Stuttgart, Institute of Parallel and Distributed Systems, Applications of Parallel and Distributed Systems;
University of Stuttgart, Institute of Architecture of Application Systems},
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=1}
}
@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 = {University of Stuttgart, Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Information Technology, Germany},
series = {Procedia CIRP},
volume = {41},
pages = {147--152},
type = {Conference Paper},
month = {February},
year = {2016},
doi = {10.1016/j.procir.2015.12.076},
keywords = {Process; Automation; Optimization; Adaptation},
language = {English},
cr-category = {H.4.1 Office Automation,
H.5.3 Group and Organization Interfaces},
department = {University of Stuttgart, Institute of Parallel and Distributed Systems, Applications of Parallel and Distributed Systems;
University of Stuttgart, Institute of Architecture of Application Systems},
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=1}
}
@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 = {University of Stuttgart, Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Information Technology, Germany},
pages = {391--400},
type = {Conference Paper},
month = {December},
year = {2015},
keywords = {Informal processes; Agent-centered processes; Human-centric processes; Process execution; TOSCA; APIfication},
language = {English},
cr-category = {H.4.1 Office Automation,
H.5.3 Group and Organization Interfaces},
department = {University of Stuttgart, Institute of Architecture of Application Systems},
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=1}
}
@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 = {University of Stuttgart, Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Information Technology, Germany},
series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)},
volume = {9114},
pages = {231--250},
type = {Conference Paper},
month = {June},
year = {2015},
isbn = {10.1007/978-3-319-19890-3_16},
keywords = {Informal process essentials; Human architecture description language; Wiki; Collaboration configuration; Transformation},
language = {English},
cr-category = {D.2.2 Software Engineering Design Tools and Techniques,
H.4.1 Office Automation},
contact = {sungur@iaas.uni-stuttgart.de},
department = {University of Stuttgart, Institute of Architecture of Application Systems},
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=1}
}
@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 = {University of Stuttgart, Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Information Technology, Germany},
pages = {200--209},
type = {Conference Paper},
month = {September},
year = {2014},
language = {English},
cr-category = {H.4.1 Office Automation,
K.1 The Computer Industry,
H.1 Models and Principles},
department = {University of Stuttgart, Institute of Architecture of Application Systems},
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=1}
}
@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 = {University of Stuttgart, Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Information Technology, Germany},
pages = {56--63},
type = {Workshop Paper},
month = {February},
year = {2014},
keywords = {ad-hoc processes, informal processes, informal processes support model, informal process essentials, informal process recommendations},
language = {English},
cr-category = {H.1 Models and Principles,
K.1 The Computer Industry},
contact = {timurhan.sungur@iaas.uni-stuttgart.de},
department = {University of Stuttgart, Institute of Architecture of Application Systems},
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=1}
}
@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 = {University of Stuttgart, Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Information Technology, Germany},
pages = {109--116},
type = {Conference Paper},
month = {July},
year = {2013},
doi = {10.1109/CBI.2013.24},
keywords = {WSN; BPMN; Extension; makeSense; MDD},
language = {English},
cr-category = {H.4.1 Office Automation},
ee = {http://www.project-makesense.eu/},
department = {University of Stuttgart, Institute of Architecture of Application Systems},
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=1}
}