Data-driven Modeling and Coordination of Large Process Structures

In the engineering domain, the development of complex products (e.g., cars) necessitates the coordination of thousands of (sub-)processes. One of the biggest challenges for process management systems is to support the modeling, monitoring and maintenance of the many interdependencies between these sub-processes. The resulting process structures are large and can be characterized by a strong relationship with the assembly of the product; i.e., the sub-processes to be coordinated can be related to the different product components. So far, sub-process coordination has been mainly accomplished manually, resulting in high efforts and inconsistencies. IT support is required to utilize the information about the product and its structure for deriving, coordinating and maintaining such data-driven process structures. In this paper, we introduce the COREPRO framework for the data-driven modeling of large process structures. The approach reduces modeling efforts significantly and provides mechanisms for maintaining data-driven process structures

Development of a BIM and Barcode based Material Management System for Curtain Wall Industry

The construction industry is slower to adopt new technologies than other industries. Traditional construction industry material management system involves tedious paperwork, frequent phone calls and challenging coordination, posing many difficulties for the project management. Recent development in the use of information and communication technologies in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC), namely the building information modeling (BIM), promises to introduce major changes in visualization, coordination and planning processes of the engineering projects. The impact of the building’s curtain wall has become increasingly more important when determining the operational and economic performance of construction projects. And as a recognized discipline of the construction industry, curtain wall design, and fabrication and installation process involves numerous stakeholders including designers, contractors, purchasing staff, suppliers, distributors, and on-site installers. It is believed that the material tracking system, when integrated with BIM, can successfully address the major problems of the curtain wall industry. In this paper, the authors analyzed the current practice of material management in the curtain wall industry and proposed a BIM and barcode integrated material management system, which aims to provide a BIM based material management framework from the design phase to the construction phase, streamlining material management process and promoting collaborative working processes in the curtain wall industry

Концептуальная модель координации процессов управления региональным инвестиционным проектом

The article explores new actual problem of investment processes’ coordination modeling at regional level. The research is driven to develop conception and complex of models to coordinate investments. Methods and tools of their implementation under current economic conditions at regional level in Ukraine are examined as well. Conception of coordination of regional investment processes that provide effective investment resources allocation including different level budget and off-budget resources is proposed. Article also develops complex of economic and mathematical models that promote coordination of investment processes and regional development programs. Structure of DSS in the field of investments management is improved. The outcome of implementation the research results in Donetsk Regional State Administration is improvement of investment processes management system that led to better economic efficiency of regional investment projects

Концептуальная модель координации процессов управления региональным инвестиционным проектом

The article explores new actual problem of investment processes’ coordination modeling at regional level. The research is driven to develop conception and complex of models to coordinate investments. Methods and tools of their implementation under current economic conditions at regional level in Ukraine are examined as well. Conception of coordination of regional investment processes that provide effective investment resources allocation including different level budget and off-budget resources is proposed. Article also develops complex of economic and mathematical models that promote coordination of investment processes and regional development programs. Structure of DSS in the field of investments management is improved. The outcome of implementation the research results in Donetsk Regional State Administration is improvement of investment processes management system that led to better economic efficiency of regional investment projects

Material-Discursive Practices in Technology Standards Development: A Topic-Modeling Approach to Technology Evolution

Social interactions play a vital role in shaping technology evolution, especially in technology standards development involving multiple actors across the industry. However, previous studies mostly focus on the interactions between technology designs and socio-cognitive factors and pay little attention to the intertwined nature of social and material aspects of technologies. From the sociomaterial perspective, a key is to focus on the process of discursive materialization and its performative consequences in practice. Drawing on Orlikowski and Scott’s (2015) material-discursive perspective, this paper examines how the HTML5 (technology standard) evolves over time by investigating the processes of discursive materialization at the World Wide Web Consortium with the topic modeling techniques. The analysis shows that four fundamental mechanisms (process management, dialogical coordination, boundary work, and knowledge conversion) shape the evolution of HTML5. This study contributes to understanding processes of technology evolution from the sociomaterial perspective with a novel empirical approach

Business Process Model for IOT Based Systems Operations

The internet of things (IoT) is an innovative and advanced high-level IT development that provides the connection between a large network of devices equipped with numerous computing capabilities, actuation, and sensing with the help of internet connection, consequently providing multifarious novel services regarding smart systems. All around the globe the attractive big data analytics and IoT services are allowing initiatives regarding smart systems. Business processes are commonly executed inside the application systems where computers, objects of IoT as well as humans participate. However, for the system-supported processes, the use of IoT technology is still facing the problem of the absence of a standard system architecture that is essential to manage the coordination in a smart IoT environment. Business process management (BPM) is regarded as a substantial technique for designing, controlling, and improving the processes of a system. This article introduces a BPM modeling approach for IoT-based systems operation exploits IoT using BPM by adopting an IoT framework architecture and considering IoT data for interaction in a defined process model. The methodology has been carried out on top of current BPM modeling notions and system techniques for formal representations of the system and also to get through the challenges of collaboration and connection

Designinig Coordination among Human and Software Agents

The goal of this paper is to propose a new methodology for designing coordination between human angents and software agents and, ultimately, among software agents. The methodology is based on two key ideas. The first is that coordination should be designed in steps, according to a precise software engineering methodology, and starting from the specification of early requirements. The second is that coordination should be modeled as dependency between actors. Two actors may depend on one another because they want to achieve goals, acquire resources or execute a plan. The methodology used is based on Tropos, an agent oriented software engineering methodology presented in earlier papers. The methodology is presented with the help of a case study

Data-driven Design of Engineering Processes with COREPROModeler

Enterprises increasingly demand IT support for the coordination of their engineering processes, which often consist of hundreds up to thousands of sub-processes. From a technical viewpoint, these sub-processes have to be concurrently executed and synchronized considering numerous interdependencies. So far, this coordination has mainly been accomplished manually, which has resulted in errors and inconsistencies. In order to deal with this problem, we have to better understand the interdependencies between the subprocesses to be coordinated. In particular, we can benefit from the fact that sub-processes are often correlated to the assembly of a product (represented by a product data structure). This information can be utilized for the modeling and execution of so-called data-driven process structures. In this paper, we present the COREPRO demonstrator that supports the data-driven modeling of these process structures. The approach explicitly establishes a close linkage between product data structures and engineering processes