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- Munoz-Gama, Jorge, et al.
(författare)
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Process mining for healthcare : Characteristics and challenges
- 2022
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Ingår i: Journal of Biomedical Informatics. - : Elsevier BV. - 1532-0464 .- 1532-0480. ; 127
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Process mining techniques can be used to analyse business processes using the data logged during their execution. These techniques are leveraged in a wide range of domains, including healthcare, where it focuses mainly on the analysis of diagnostic, treatment, and organisational processes. Despite the huge amount of data generated in hospitals by staff and machinery involved in healthcare processes, there is no evidence of a systematic uptake of process mining beyond targeted case studies in a research context. When developing and using process mining in healthcare, distinguishing characteristics of healthcare processes such as their variability and patient-centred focus require targeted attention. Against this background, the Process-Oriented Data Science in Healthcare Alliance has been established to propagate the research and application of techniques targeting the data-driven improvement of healthcare processes. This paper, an initiative of the alliance, presents the distinguishing characteristics of the healthcare domain that need to be considered to successfully use process mining, as well as open challenges that need to be addressed by the community in the future.
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Business Process Management: Blockchain and Robotic Process Automation Forum
- 2020
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Proceedings (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This volume contains the proceedings of the Blockchain Forum and the RoboticProcess Automation (RPA) Forum, which took place during the week of September13–18, 2020. Both of the forums were organized as part of the 18th InternationalConference on Business Process Management (BPM 2020). Due to the COVID-19pandemic, the main conference itself and most of its associated events were heldvirtually. The authors of the blockchain papers that appear in these proceedings pre-sented their work to a virtual audience and engaged in online discussions with peers,practitioners, students, and others. The RPA Forum was organized in a hybrid form:Presenters had the opportunity to join online orin situ, in Seville, Spain. As part of theRPA Forum, additional industrial demonstrations and a panel were organized. MoeWynn of Queensland University of Technology, Australia, gave the keynote talk at theRPA Forum.The Blockchain Forum and the RPA Forum have in common that they are centeredaround an emerging and exciting technology. Blockchain is a sophisticated distributedledger technology, while RPA software allows for mimicking human, repetitiveactions. Each of these have the potential to fundamentally change how business pro-cesses are being orchestrated and executed in practice. The BPM community hasembraced these technologies as objects of analysis, design, development, and evalu-ation. The forums were also created to allow for a discussion with researchers fromotherfields who share their interest in these technologies, whether this is from aneconomic, sociological, business, mathematical, or other viewpoint. The BlockchainForum took place for the second time, after itsfirst successful appearance at BPM 2019in Vienna. The RPA Forum made its debut this year at BPM 2020.In the spring of 2020, when the deadlines for paper submissions to the forumsexpired, it was not clear how–if at all–these events would take place. At that time,parts of the world were already suffering from the spread of COVID-19. Despite theuncertainty, both events received a fair amount of submissions by author teams from awide range of institutes and countries. The Blockchain Forum received 10 papers ofwhich the top 5 were accepted as full papers; the RPA Forum even received 18submissions, which led to the acceptance of the top 9 as full papers. Given the 50%acceptance for each of the events, this rate applies to these proceedings as a whole. Inaddition, one submission to the RPA Forum was accepted as a short paper because ofits promising nature and timely contribution. For both forums, each submission wasreviewed by at least three members of the respective Program Committees.We hope that the reader of these proceedings will enjoy the versatility of theincluded papers, as well as the creativity that the authors put into their work. Manyof the papers present fresh perspectives, which we expect to shape how the involvedtechnologies will evolve over time and how they will be applied in practice. We wouldlike to thank the authors for submitting and presenting their work. We are also gratefulto our colleagues who served as reviewers in the screening process and provided the authors with meaningful and constructive feedback. We want to explicitly acknowl-edge the effort of Appian and MCCM Innovations for their contribution to the RPAForum: they provided an industrial perspective on RPA by demonstrating how thetechnology is applied in practice. Finally, we are indebted to all the people from theBPM 2020 team, who supported us and created the setting for both events. Without their help, these forums would not have taken place.
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- Jalali, Amin, et al.
(författare)
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A Hybrid Approach for Aspect-Oriented Business Process Modeling
- 2018
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Ingår i: Journal of Software. - : Wiley. - 2047-7473 .- 2047-7481. ; 30:8
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Separation of concerns has long been an important strategy to deal with complexity when developing a system. Some concerns (like security) are scattered through the whole system, and different modules are tangled to such concerns. These concerns are known as cross‐cutting concerns. When the system in question is a business process, cross‐cutting concerns are aimed at being encapsulated by Aspect‐Oriented Business Process Modeling. However, the state‐of‐the‐art techniques in this field lack efficient mechanisms that (1) support composition of cross‐cutting concerns that can be defined in parallel to (a part of) a process model and (2) enable specifying both mandatory and optional cross‐cutting concerns. To address these limitations, this paper proposes a new Aspect‐Oriented Business Process Modeling approach. The approach is hybrid since it is based on declarative rules to relate imperative cross‐cutting concerns and imperative business process models. The approach is explained, formally grounded with precise semantics, and used accordingly to implement the artifacts that support modeling and enactment of business processes in the proposed fashion as a proof of concept. In addition, the approach is evaluated on the basis of the Technology Acceptance Model during a workshop session. The result shows that participants perceived the approach usable and easy to use.
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- Jalali, Amin, et al.
(författare)
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Enhancing Aspect-Oriented Business Process Modeling with Declarative Rules
- 2015
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Ingår i: Conceptual Modeling. - Cham : Springer. - 9783319252636 - 9783319252643 ; , s. 108-115
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- When managing a set of inter-related business processes, typically a number of concerns can be distinguished that are applicable to more than one single process, such as security and traceability. The proper enforcement of these cross-cutting concerns may require a specific configuration effort for each of the business processes involved. Aspect-Oriented Business Process Modelling is an approach that aims at encapsulating these concerns in a model-oriented way. However, state-of-the-art techniques lack efficient mechanisms that allow for the specification of concerns in such a way that they can be executed in parallel to other parts of the process. Moreover, existing techniques exclusively focus on the formulation of mandatory concerns. To address these limitations, this paper provides a new approach to encapsulate both optional and mandatory concerns, which can be executed concurrently with other process functionalities. One core element of the new approach is that it extends current Aspect-Oriented Business Process Modelling approaches with declarative rules. The approach is explained, formally grounded with precise semantics, and used accordingly to implement the artefacts that support the enactment of a business process in the proposed fashion. The execution environment is applied to a case from the educational domain to demonstrate the feasibility and usefulness of the underlying concepts.
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- La Rosa, Marcello, et al.
(författare)
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Managing Process Model Complexity via Abstract Syntax Modifications
- 2011
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Ingår i: IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. - 1551-3203 .- 1941-0050. ; 7:4, s. 614-629
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- As a result of the growing adoption of Business Process Management (BPM) technology, different stakeholders need to understand and agree upon the process models that are used to configure BPM systems. However, BPM users have problems dealing with the complexity of such models. Therefore, the challenge is to improve the comprehension of process models. While a substantial amount of literature is devoted to this topic, there is no overview of the various mechanisms that exist to deal with managing complexity in (large) process models. As a result, it is hard to obtain an insight into the degree of support offered for complexity reducing mechanisms by state-of-the-art languages and tools. This paper focuses on complexity reduction mechanisms that affect the abstract syntax of a process model, i.e. the formal structure of process model elements and their interrelationships. These mechanisms are captured as patterns so that they can be described in their most general form, in a language- and tool-independent manner. The paper concludes with a comparative overview of the degree of support for these patterns offered by state-of-the-art languages and tools, and with an evaluation of the patterns from a usability perspective, as perceived by BPM practitioners.
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- La Rosa, Marcello, et al.
(författare)
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Managing Process Model Complexity via Concrete Syntax Modifications
- 2011
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Ingår i: IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. - 1551-3203 .- 1941-0050. ; 7:2, s. 255-265
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- While Business Process Management (BPM) is an established discipline, the increased adoption of BPM technology in recent years has introduced new challenges. One challenge concerns dealing with the ever-growing complexity of business process models. Mechanisms for dealing with this complexity can be classified into two categories: i) those that are solely concerned with the visual representation of the model, and ii) those that change its inner structure. While significant attention is paid to the latter category in the BPM literature, this paper focuses on the former category. It presents a collection of patterns that generalize and conceptualize various existing mechanisms to change the visual representation of a process model. Next, it provides a detailed analysis of the degree of support for these patterns in a number of state-of-the-art languages and tools. The paper concludes with the results of a usability evaluation of the patterns conducted with BPM practitioners.
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