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0000-0001-5373-2879
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Federation University
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The University of Canberra
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Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2012
Publisher: Zenodo
Date: 2015
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2020
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2012
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 20-07-2011
Publisher: IGI Global
Date: 2010
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-819-7.CH002
Abstract: Web services have become a dominating technology for business integration. For operation reliability and robustness, transactional support is an important issue for Web service system design and development. Yet, most existing Web services protocols, like WS-BPEL which sticks to the compensation-based recovery strategy, only provide very limited supports for Web services in certain circumstances. As Web service systems are scaling up, more advanced transactional supports beyond traditional compensation-based solutions are required to catch up with the increasing complexity of composite Web services. This chapter looks into the problem of transactional support for composing and scheduling those Web services that may have different transactional properties. The transactional properties of workflow constructs, which are fundamental to the composition of Web services, are thoroughly investigated. The concept of connection point is introduced to derive the transactional properties of composite Web services. The scheduling issue of composite Web services is also discussed.
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2009
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2010
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2013
Publisher: IGI Global
Date: 2009
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-669-3.CH012
Abstract: This chapter introduces a service oriented relative workflow model as a means of helping organisations promptly create flexible and privacy-safe virtual organisation alliances. It argues that virtual organisation alliances are highly advocated to adapt to dynamic B2B collaborations, driven by the fast changing service demand-and-supply requirements. However, the temporary partnership and low trustiness between collaborating organisations put challenges to effectively manage collaborative business processes, and correspondingly an organisation centred design method and a visibility mechanism are discussed in this chapter to provide a finer granularity of authority control at contacting and collaboration design phases. Furthermore, the authors hope that understanding the establishment of a virtual organisation alliance through the use of relative workflows will not only inform researchers a better business process design methodology, but also assist in the understanding of the dynamic behaviours inside a virtual organisation alliance and the supporting approaches.
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2010
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2015
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Date: 02-06-2015
DOI: 10.1145/2744207
Abstract: The process view concept deploys a partial and temporal representation to adjust the visible view of a business process according to various perception constraints of users. Process view technology is of practical use for privacy protection and authorization control in process-oriented business management. Owing to complex organizational structure, it is challenging for large companies to accurately specify the erse perception of different users over business processes. Aiming to tackle this issue, this article presents a role-based process view model to incorporate role dependencies into process view derivation. Compared to existing process view approaches, ours particularly supports runtime updates to the process view perceivable to a user with specific view merging operations, thereby enabling the dynamic tracing of process perception. A series of rules and theorems are established to guarantee the structural consistency and validity of process view transformation. A hypothetical case is conducted to illustrate the feasibility of our approach, and a prototype is developed for the proof-of-concept purpose.
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2008
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Date: 11-2009
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2009
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2006
DOI: 10.1007/11610113_59
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2009
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Date: 03-2011
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 18-09-2014
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 18-03-2011
Publisher: IGI Global
Date: 2010
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-965-1.CH516
Abstract: This chapter introduces a service oriented relative workflow model as a means of helping organisations promptly create flexible and privacy-safe virtual organisation alliances. It argues that virtual organisation alliances are highly advocated to adapt to dynamic B2B collaborations, driven by the fast changing service demand-and-supply requirements. However, the temporary partnership and low trustiness between collaborating organisations put challenges to effectively manage collaborative business processes, and correspondingly an organisation centred design method and a visibility mechanism are discussed in this chapter to provide a finer granularity of authority control at contacting and collaboration design phases. Furthermore, the authors hope that understanding the establishment of a virtual organisation alliance through the use of relative workflows will not only inform researchers a better business process design methodology, but also assist in the understanding of the dynamic behaviours inside a virtual organisation alliance and the supporting approaches.
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 04-03-2021
DOI: 10.1108/BPMJ-07-2020-0331
Abstract: The purpose of this research is to explore the ways of integrating situational awareness into business process management for the purpose of realising hyper automated business processes. Such business processes will help improve their customer experiences, enhance the reliability of service delivery and lower the operational cost for a more competitive and sustainable business. Ontology has been deployed to establish the context modelling method, and the event handling mechanisms are developed on the basis of event calculus. An approach on performance of the proposed approach has been evaluation by checking the cost savings from the simulation of a large number of business processes. In this research, the authors have formalised the context presentation for a business process with a focus on rules and entities to support context perception proposed a system architecture to illustrate the structure and constitution of a supporting system for intelligent and situation aware business process management developed real-time event elicitation and interpretation mechanisms to operationalise the perception of contextual dynamics and real-time responses and evaluated the applicability of the proposed approaches and the performance improvement to business processes. This paper presents a framework covering process context modelling, system architecture and real-time event handling mechanisms to support situational awareness of business processes. The reported research is based on our previous work on radio frequency identification-enabled applications and context-aware business process management with substantial extension to process context modelling and process simulation.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2018
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2011
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2009
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-06-2013
DOI: 10.1002/CPE.2855
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 21-05-2009
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2010
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 12-07-2011
Publisher: IGI Global
Date: 2015
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-7473-8.CH008
Abstract: As a typical IT management subject, IT project management has existed as a core subject in universities for a long period. Unlike other subjects, project management requires solid experience to fully understand its concepts and methodologies. Reluctantly, many academics often face the situation that their students lack such experience, and how to ensure the teaching/learning quality becomes an important issue to solve. This chapter first identifies some typical issues with project management students and the corresponding challenges to effective teaching. Some teaching methods are also introduced together with the sharing of the author's experience in applying them in class. The effectiveness of the methods is evaluated according to the teaching improvements in terms of student feedback and satisfaction statistics.
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 09-11-2010
DOI: 10.1108/14637151011093008
Abstract: The emergence of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology promises enormous opportunities to shift business process automation up to the wire level. The purpose of this paper is to explore the methodology of incorporating business logics into RFID edge systems, and thereby facilitate the business process automation in the RFID‐applied environment. Following the object‐oriented modelling perspective, concepts of classes, instances are deployed to characterise the runtime context of RFID business scenarios event patterns are used to aggregate RFID tag read events into business meaningful events and business rules are established to automate business transactions according to the elicited events. The paper has emphasised the synergy between business process automation and automatic data acquisition, and has identified the inter‐relations between RFID tag read events, application‐level events, business rules, and business operations. The reported research has demonstrated a feasible scheme of incorporating business process control and automation into RFID‐enabled applications. The paper analyses the characteristics of RFID data and event handling in relation to business rule modelling and process automation. The features of event‐relied awareness, context containment and overlapping, etc. are all captured and described by the proposed object‐oriented business model. The given data‐driven RFID middleware architecture can serve as one reference architecture for system design and development. Hence, the paper plays an important role in connecting automatic data acquisition and existing business processes, and thereby bridges the physical world and the digital world.
Publisher: IEEE
Date: 07-2018
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 18-06-2008
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Date: 07-10-2016
DOI: 10.1145/2990197
Abstract: In the context of business process management, the resources required by business processes, such as workshop staff, manufacturing machines, etc., tend to follow certain availability patterns, due to maintenance cycles, work shifts and other factors. Such availability patterns heavily influence the efficiency and effectiveness of enterprise resource management. Most existing process scheduling and resource management approaches tend to tune the process structure to seek better resource utilisation, yet neglect the constraints on resource availability. In this article, we investigate the scheduling of business process instances in accordance with resource availability patterns, to find out how enterprise resources can be rationally and sufficiently used. Three heuristic-based planning strategies are proposed to maximise the process instance throughput together with another strategy based on a genetic algorithm. The performance of these strategies has been evaluated by conducting experiments of different settings and analysing the strategy characteristics.
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2008
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