Proviado – Personalized and Configurable Visualizations of Business Processes

Bobrik, Ralph; Bauer, Thomas; Reichert, Manfred

doi:10.1007/11823865_7

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“…In principle, the basic concepts behind this tool can be added as extensions to existing BPM tools as well; e.g., Intalio (Intalio, 2006), Aris Toolset (2007, and ADEPT2 Process Composer . Furthermore, configuration and visualization support for business process models (Bobrik, 2006) (Bobrik, 2007) (Hallerbach, 2008) can be improved utilizing the semantics of the used activity patterns. Finally, we plan to use our tool for conducting a series of experiments in which we compare process modeling with and without activity pattern support.…”

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Activity patterns in process-aware information systems: basic concepts and empirical evidence

Thom

Reichert

Iochpe

2009

IJBPIM

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Abstract:Recently, a variety of workflow patterns was suggested for capturing different aspects in process-aware information systems (PAISs) including control and data flow, resources, process change, and exception handling. All these patterns are highly relevant for implementing PAISs and for designing process modeling languages. However, current patterns provide only a partial answer to the question which business functions a designer might want to reuse when modeling processes. This paper presents a revised version of a collection of activity patterns to deal with this challenge. Each of them is related to a recurrent business function as it can be frequently found in process models (e.g., task execution request, notification, approval). We describe the identified activity patterns and their variants in detail. The main purpose of our paper is to discuss results from empirical studies, in which we analyzed more than 200 process models in order to evidence the practical relevance of the patterns. This includes a detailed analysis of the context in which activity patterns occur as well the frequency of this occurrence. These empirical findings can be used for the design of more intelligent, pattern-based process modeling tools.Keywords: workflow activity patterns; business functions; business process management; business process modeling.Reference to this paper should be made as follows: Thom, L.H., Reichert, M., Iochpe, C.

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Activity patterns in process-aware information systems: basic concepts and empirical evidence

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Reichert

Iochpe

2009

IJBPIM

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“…The Proviado framework targets at a flexible and configurable visualization of large business process models and related process instances [2,10,11,9]. In particular, respective process visualizations must be customizable to the specific needs of the different stakeholders involved the process [2].…”

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“…While the described view-building approach allows us to define which process elements shall be displayed, the Proviado Template Mechanism [10] enables a flexible configuration of the graphical appearance of the different elements of a process model. For this purpose, Proviado provides a sophisticated template mechanisms.…”

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Visualizing Large Business Process Models: Challenges, Techniques, Applications

Reichert¹

2013

Business Process Management Workshops

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Abstract. Large process models may comprise hundreds or thousands of process elements, like activities, gateways, and data objects. Presenting such process models to users and enabling them to interact with these models constitute crucial tasks of any process-aware information systems (PAISs). Existing PAISs, however, neither provide adequate techniques for visualizing and abstracting process models nor for interacting with them. In particular, PAISs do not provide tailored process visualizations as needed in complex application environments. This paper presents examples of large process models and discusses some of the challenges to be tackled when visualizing and abstracting respective models. Further, it presents a comprehensive framework that allows for personalized process model visualizations, which can be tailored to the specific needs of the different user groups. First, process model complexity can be reduced by abstracting the models, i.e., by eliminating or aggregating process elements not relevant in the given visualization context. Second, the appearance of process elements can be customized independent of the process modeling language used. Third, different visualization formats (e.g., process diagrams, process forms, and process trees) are supported. Finally, it will be discussed how tailored visualizations of process models may serve as basis for changing and evolving process models at a high level of abstraction.

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“…For example, managers rather prefer an abstract process overview, whereas process participants need a detailed view of those process parts they are involved in. Several approaches for creating such process model views, which are based on well-defined abstraction techniques, have been proposed [7,8,9]. However, in many cases providing a customized process view is not sufficient for making the relevant part of a process model understandable for the end user.…”

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Creating and Updating Personalized and Verbalized Business Process Descriptions

Kolb¹,

Leopold

Mendling

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Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

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Abstract. The increasing adoption of process-aware information systems (PAISs) has resulted in large process model collections. To support users having different perspectives on complex processes and related data, a PAIS should enable personalized process views, i.e., user-specific abstractions of process models. Despite the abstraction achieved through views of the graphical process models, many end users still struggle with understanding these graphical models and their details. For selected user groups, therefore, a PAIS should provide verbalized process descriptions describing their role in the process. Existing PAISs neither provide mechanisms for managing process views nor verbalized process descriptions. While process views have been used as visual abstractions for large process models, so far no work exists on how to provide both personalized and verbalized process descriptions based on respective views. This paper presents an approach for creating such personalized and verbalized process descriptions based on process views. Furthermore, textual changes of a personalized and verbalized process description are correctly mapped to corresponding updates of the underlying process model. In this context, all other views and process descriptions related to this process model are migrated to the new version of the process model as well. Overall, our approach enables end users to understand and evolve large process models based on personalized and verbalized process descriptions.

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Proviado – Personalized and Configurable Visualizations of Business Processes

Cited by 56 publications

References 9 publications

Activity patterns in process-aware information systems: basic concepts and empirical evidence

Activity patterns in process-aware information systems: basic concepts and empirical evidence

Visualizing Large Business Process Models: Challenges, Techniques, Applications

Creating and Updating Personalized and Verbalized Business Process Descriptions

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