Project title: “Facilitating Business Process Standardisation and Reuse”
One of the most pressing management challenges of today’s organisations lies in the reuse and standardisation of best practices across different sectors, products or units. This project aims to design and develop an innovative process model repository and appropriate governance structures to efficiently and effectively support the standardisation and reuse of best practices.
Work Streams
Work Stream I: Advanced Repository Features
This work stream focuses on the design, implementation and testing of advanced features for the management of (large) process model collections. Particular emphasis will be put on the design of those features that foster standardization and reuse of process models. These features will be described by means of algorithms in pseudo-code and formal methods, and be implemented in the Apromore platform.
Work Stream II: Process Model Collections in Practice
This work stream focuses on the value of (large) process model collections in the context of various Business Process Management initiatives. Specifically, the purpose of this research is to gain theory-driven, empirical insights into the repository-enabled use of process modeling in practice, the impact of process modeling to the success of organizational initiatives, and the contribution of advanced tool support (such as repositories with advanced modeling features) to increasing the value of process modeling.
Sponsors
The project is co-funded by the Australian Research Council, the Queensland University of Technology and Suncorp. Suncorp is one of Australia’s top 25 listed companies and Queensland’s largest listed corporation. Suncorp provides a range of banking and insurance products directly to customers through an extensive branch and agency network, call centre operations, on-line facilities, and through intermediaries and corporate partners. The collaboration with Suncorp will offer the opportunity to work with real-life business process models, and the possibility to conduct case studies to validate the outcomes of this research.
Budget
Australian Research Council: AUD$210,000
- 2011: $70,000
- 2012: $70,000
- 2013: $70,000
Suncorp: AUD$190,000
- 2011: $30,000
- 2012: $30,000
- 2013: $130,000
Participants
Queensland University of Technology
- Prof. Marcello La Rosa
- Prof. Jan Recker
- Prof. Michael Rosemann
- Prof. Arthur H.M. ter Hofstede
- Dr Artem Polyvyanyy, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
- Eike Bernhard, PhD Candidate
Suncorp
- James Couzens, Solution Architect
- Deborah Mahoney, Team Leader
- Cameron James, Senior Software Engineer
- Shatish Venkatamaran, Senior Software Engineer
Publications
Journal Papers
- M. La Rosa, M. Dumas, C. Ekanayake, L. Garcia-Baneulos, J. Recker, A.H.M. ter Hofstede, Detecting Approximate Clones in Business Process Model Repositories. Information Systems, 2014 (forthcoming).
- A. Polyvyanyy, M. La Rosa, C. Ouyang, A.H.M. ter Hofstede. Untanglings: A Novel Approach to Analyzing Concurrent Systems. Formal Aspects of Concurrency, 2014 (forthcoming).
- H. Leopold, J. Mendling, H.A. Reijers, M. La Rosa. Simplifying Process Model Abstraction: Techniques for Generating Process model Names. Information Systems, Vol. 39, 2014.
- T. Jin, J. Wang, N. Wu, M. La Rosa and A.H.M. ter Hofstede. Efficient Querying of Large Process Model Repositories. Computers in Industry, Vol. 64 No. 1, 2013.
- M. Dumas, L. Garcia-Banuelos, M. La Rosa, R. Uba. Fast Detection of Exact Clones in Repositories of Business Process Models. Information Systems, Vol. 38 No. 4, 2013.
- M. La Rosa, M. Dumas, R. Uba, R. Dijkman. Business Process Model Merging: An Approach to Business Process Consolidation, ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, Vol. 22 No. 2, 2013.
- R. Dijkman, M. La Rosa, H. Reijers. Managing Large Collections of Business Process Models – Current Techniques and Challenges, Computers in Industry, Vol. 62 No. 3, 2012.
- J. Mendling, L. Sanchez-Gonzalez, F. Garcia, M. La Rosa. Thresholds for Error Probability Measures of Business Process Models. Journal of Systems and Software, Vol. 85 No. 5, 2012.
- J. Recker. “Modeling with Tools is Easier, Believe Me” – The Effects of Tool Functionality on Modeling Grammar Usage Beliefs. Information Systems, Vol. 37 No. 3, 2012.
- W.M.P. van der Aalst, N. Lohmann and M. La Rosa. Ensuring Correctness During Process Configuration via Partner Synthesis. Information Systems, Vol. 37 No. 6, 2012.
- M. La Rosa, P. Wohed, J. Mendling, A.H.M. ter Hofstede, H. Reijers and W.M.P. van der Aalst. Managing Process Model Complexity via Abstract Syntax Modifications. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Vol. 7 No. 4, 2011.
- M. La Rosa, A.H.M. ter Hofstede, P. Wohed, H. Reijers, J. Mendling, W.M.P. van der Aalst, Managing Process Model Complexity via Concrete Syntax Modifications. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Vol. 7 No. 2, 2011.
Conference Papers
- A. Polyvyanyy, M. Weidlich, R. Conforti, M. La Rosa, A.H.M. ter Hofstede. The 4C Spectrum of Fundamental Behavioral Relations for Concurrent Systems. In Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Application and Theory of Petri Nets and Concurrency (Petri Nets), Tunis, Tunisia, Springer, 2014 (forthcoming)
- A. Polyvyanyy, M. La Rosa, A.H.M. ter Hofstede. Indexing and Efficient Instance-based Retrieval of Process Models Using Untanglings. In Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE), Greece. Springer, 2014 (forthcoming).
- A.H.M. ter Hofstede, C. Ouyang, M. La Rosa, L. Song, J. Wang, A. Polyvyanyy. APQL: A Process-model Query Language. In: Proceedings of the 1st Asia Pacific Conference on Business Process Management. LNBIP, Springer, 2014 (to appear).
- E. Bernhard, J. Recker, A. Burton-Jones. Understanding the Actualization of Affordances: A Study in the Process Modeling Context. In: Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Information Systems, Milan, Italy, 2013.
- A. Nolte, E. Bernhard, J. Recker. “You’ve Modelled and now what?” Exploring Determinants of Process Model Re-Use. In: Proceedings of the 24th Australasian Conference on Information Systems, Melbourne, Australia, 2013.
- J.C.A.M. Buijs, M. La Rosa, H.A. Reijers, B.F. van Dongen, W.M.P. van der Aalst. Improving Business Process Models using Observed Behavior. In: Post-proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Data-driven Process Discovery and Analysis (SIMPDA), Campione d’Italia, Italy. LNBIB 162, Springer, 2013.
- E. Bernhard, J. Recker. Preliminary Insights from a Multiple Case Study on Process Modelling Impact. In: Proceedings of the 23rd Australasian Conference on Information Systems, Geelong, Australia, 2012.
- K. van Hee, M. La Rosa, Z. Liu and N. Sidorova. Discovering Characteristics of Stochastic Collections of Process Models. In: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Business Process Management, Springer, 2011.
- R. Uba, M. Dumas, L. Garcia-Banuelos and M. La Rosa. Clone Detection in Repositories of Business Process Models. In: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Business Process Management, Springer, 2011.