582667 Business Process Automation (ohtk 25.8.2011)

Pääteemat Esitiedot Lähestyy oppimistavoitetta Saavuttaa oppimistavoitteet Syventää oppimistavoitteita
Establishing a basic understanding for the e-business context. Introducing the vocabulary required for communicating with business analysts and consultants - Knows  how to apply the BOAT-model to classify business processes Can define what a business process BP is, understands how the BOAT model and classification categories for BPs interleave in alignment strategies, can explain in detail the BOAT model Organize at a glance unstructructured business-context data for instantaneous policy formulation.
Being able to model a business process (BP) from a (semi) informal to a formal level Recommended: Software Modelling
Can model a business process in a notation of choice Can model a BP in BPMN and Petri-net notation. Know how to map from informal to increasingly formal BP-notations. Knows control-flow patterns Being able to model a BP so that it adheres to the detected business context.
Specifying the resource perspective of a business process and understanding improvement scopes - Can organize and specify the resource perspective Can develop the resource perspective of a BP and knows how to apply resource patterns. Knowing why the resource perspective is different from control flow but how to associate both for meaningful automation.

Analyzing workflows for detecting errors, injecting patterns, enhancing efficiency

Recommended: Models of Computation Knows why soundness is an important feature. Has an overview of techniques for checking BPs. Can define soundness and all related sub-properties. Can explain in detail what validation, verification and performance testing of a BP is, what their respective strengths and weeknesses are. Can apply verification tools. Understanding the importance of semantics versus mere syntax  
Understanding the functions and architecture of an enactment system for business processes - Can draw the workflow management reference architecture. Knows what parts of the YAWL application correspond to which part of the reference architecture. Knows in detail all components and interfaces of the workflow management reference architecture, what problems may occur between them and what types of data are needed. Can enact a business process in YAWL. Analysing accurately workflow systems for completeness.  
Using BPEL for process formulation and a verification tool - Is aware of basic BPEL language constructs for control-flow and data flow Can model a syntactically  business process in BPEL, test for soundness with WofBPEL and enact with an open-source application Having an awareness of the elements in the service-oriented architecture for BPA and where deficiencies exist.  

 

Additional information: 
<p>http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/anorta/BPA2011.html</p> <p>https://www.cs.helsinki.fi/en/courses/582667/2011/k/k/1</p>
19.01.2012 - 10:04 Alexander Norta
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