Comparing and Aligning Process Representations - Foundations and Technical Solutions

This doctoral thesis focuses on the spread of process information in organizations and, in particular, on the mitigation of the problems caused by the spread of information on a single process over numerous models, documents, and systems.Processes within organizations can be highly complex chains of inter-related steps, involving numerous stakeholders and information systems. Due to this complexity, having access to the right information is vital to the proper execution and effective management of an organization's business processes.
The main contributions of this thesis are five techniques that focus on the alignment and comparison of process information from different informational artifacts. Each of these techniques tackles a specific scenario involving multiple informational artifacts that contain process information in different representation formats.

List of contents

Introduction.- Background.- Comparing Process Models to Textual Process Descriptions.- Conformance Checking based on Uncertain Event-Activity Mappings.- Dealing with Ambiguity in Textual Process Descriptions.- Transforming and Aligning Process Performance Indicators.- Process Model Matching using Event-Log Information.- Conclusion.

Summary

This doctoral thesis focuses on the spread of process information in organizations and, in particular, on the mitigation of the problems caused by the spread of information on a single process over numerous models, documents, and systems.Processes within organizations can be highly complex chains of inter-related steps, involving numerous stakeholders and information systems. Due to this complexity, having access to the right information is vital to the proper execution and effective management of an organization’s business processes.
The main contributions of this thesis are five techniques that focus on the alignment and comparison of process information from different informational artifacts. Each of these techniques tackles a specific scenario involving multiple informational artifacts that contain process information in different representation formats.

Product details

• Authors: Han van der Aa, Han van der Aa
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2018
• EAN: 9783319946337
• ISBN: 978-3-31-994633-7
• No. of pages: 164
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 237 mm x 11 mm
• Weight: 289 g
• Illustrations: XIX, 164 p. 26 illus.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Application software; B, Software Engineering, computer science, Business Process Management, IT in Business, Public Administration, Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet), Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet), Computer and Information Systems Applications, Application software, Management information systems, Business mathematics & systems, Information technology: general issues, Industrial Management, Internet searching, Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Processing