Modern Business Process Automation -

Modern Business Process Automation

YAWL and its Support Environment
Buch | Softcover
XVIII, 676 Seiten
2014 | 2010
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-642-42490-8 (ISBN)
85,59 inkl. MwSt
Business Process Automation principles and implementation methods are presented in this comprehensive overview. A wide range of topics are illustrated through the YAWL open-source support environment, providing a sound basis for workflow concepts.

The ?eld of Business Process Management (BPM) is marred by a seemingly e- less sequence of (proposed) industry standards. Contrary to other ?elds (e.g., civil or electronic engineering), these standards are not the result of a widely supported consolidationofwell-understoodandwell-establishedconceptsandpractices.Inthe BPM domain, it is frequently the case that BPM vendors opportunistically become involved in the creation of proposed standards to exert or maintain their in?uence and interests in the ?eld. Despite the initial fervor associated with such standardi- tion activities, it is no less frequent that vendors either choose to drop their support for standards that they earlier championed on an opportunistic basis or elect only to partially support them in their commercial offerings. Moreover, the results of the standardization processes themselves are a concern. BPM standards tend to deal with complex concepts, yet they are never properly de?ned and all-too-often not informed by established research. The result is a plethoraof languagesand tools, with no consensuson conceptsand their implem- tation. They also fail to provide clear direction in the way in which BPM standards should evolve. One can also observe a dichotomy between the "business" side of BPM and its "technical" side. While it is clear that the application of BPM will fail if not placed in a proper business context, it is equally clear that its application will go nowhere if it remains merely a motivational exercise with schemas of business processes hanging on the wall gathering dust.

Arthur H.M. ter Hofstede, PhD, is a Professor at Queensland University of Technology. He is an original contributor to the well-known workflow patterns as well as a codesigner of the YAWL language and manager of the development of its open-source support environment. Wil M.P. van der Aalst, PhD, is a Professor at Eindhoven University of Technology and an Adjunct Professor at Queensland University of Technology. He is coauthor of the textbook Workflow Management: Models, Methods, and Systems and editor of several other books in the areas of Business Process Management and Petri nets. Michael Adams, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer at Queensland University of Technology. He has developed the concepts of Worklets and Exlets to deal with workflow evolution and unexpected exceptions in YAWL. In addition, he is currently the technical lead of the YAWL support environment. Nick Russell, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Eindhoven University of Technology. He has conducted extensive research in the area of workflow patterns leading to collections of control-flow, data, resource and exception handling patterns. This work formed the basis for newYAWL and the solutions to resource and exception handling in YAWL 2.0.

Concepts.- The Language: Rationale and Fundamentals.- Advanced Synchronization.- Flexibility and Change.- Dynamic Workflow.- Exception Handling.- Declarative Workflow.- The Core System.- The Architecture.- The Design Environment.- The Runtime Environment.- Services.- The Resource Service.- The Worklet Service.- The Declare Service.- Positioning.- The Business Process Modeling Notation.- EPCs.- The Business Process Execution Language.- Open Source Workflow Systems.- Advanced Topics.- Process Mining and Simulation.- Process Configuration.- Process Integration.- Verification.- Case Studies.- YAWL4Healthcare.- YAWL4Film.- Epilogue.- Epilogue.- Appendices.- Appendix A The Order Fulfillment Process Model.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 15.10.2014
Zusatzinfo XVIII, 676 p.
Verlagsort Berlin
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Gewicht 1050 g
Themenwelt Mathematik / Informatik Informatik Datenbanken
Wirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft / Management
Schlagworte BPEL • BPM • BPMN • BPMN ( Business Process Model and Notation) • BPMN (Business Process Model and Notation) • Business Process • business process management • Business Process Mining • Business Process Model and Notation • business process modeling • information system • Modeling • Open Source • Process Management • Simulation • Workflow Management • YAWL
ISBN-10 3-642-42490-2 / 3642424902
ISBN-13 978-3-642-42490-8 / 9783642424908
Zustand Neuware
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