CA4BPS: An end-to-end context-based approach for business process socialisation

© 2019 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.. All rights reserved. Today\u27s enterprises are in quest of innovative ways that would help them demystify the social relations that would exist between them and their stakeholders. To this end, these enterprises have been looking into integrating Web 2.0 into their business processes (BP) to develop social business processes (SBP). Evidently, an enterprise cannot socialise its entire BPs for reasons related to security and feasibility (e.g., technical and financial). This paper proposes an end-to-end approach to assist enterprises in socialising BPs. The approach builds upon enterprise architecture to define contextual elements that would guide the socialisation exercise. It uses analytic hierarchical process to assess the eligibility of BPs to socialisation based on these elements. It also embraces model-driven architecture to model and implement the socialised BPs. The preliminary evaluation of the approach shows encouraging results

Enhancing business processes with web 2.0 features

Web 2.0 aims to support human interactions and content creation by combining information from different contributors. It can enhance business processes by improving communication, collaboration and exchange of knowledge between various participants. These benefits led to the emergence of a new form of business processes called Social Business Process (SBP). This paper provides for SBP modelling by proposing a domain-specific language (DSL) based on an extension of the standard BPMN notation to model social elements within an SBP. It is simple and yet generic thanks to the reduced number of extensions and its ability to model SBP regardless of the used Web 2.0 technology. To show the applicability of the proposed notation, we have implemented it within the BPMN2 modeller editor

Social Business Process Modeling

Capitalizing on Web 2.0 to improve communication and knowledge sharing among stakeholders, a new form of business processes (BP), called social business processes (SBP), has emerged. This chapter provides a social business process meta-model called SBP2M that enriches an existing business process meta-model with social aspect. It also proposes a domain-specific language (DSL) for SBP modeling. This DSL is defined based on SBP2M and developed as an extension of the standard BPMN notation. The proposed DSL is simple and yet generic thanks to the reduced number of extensions and its ability to model SBP regardless of the used Web 2.0 technology. To show the applicability of the proposed notation, the authors have implemented it within the BPMN2 modeler editor

A Fuzzy-Based Approach for Identifying Candidate Business Processes for Socialization

© 2019 World Scientific Publishing Company. Social business processes support enterprises tap into the opportunities of Web 2.0. To ensure an efficient support, this paper presents an approach for identifying an enterprise\u27s business processes that could be converted into social. Indeed, not all processes are eligible for this conversion. The approach is built upon the concept of enterprise architecture that sheds the light on the necessary contextual elements for guiding the socialization of business processes. Due to the fuzzy nature of socialization, two multi-criteria decision making techniques, fuzzy logic and fuzzy-decision tree, enhance this guidance. A set of experiments for evaluating the proposed approach are presented in the paper, as well

A fuzzy logic-based approach for assessing the quality of business process models

Copyright © 2017 by SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications, Lda. All rights reserved. Similar to software products, the quality of a Business Process model is vital to the success of all the phases of its lifecycle. Indeed, a high quality BP model paves the way to the successful implementation, execution and performance of the business process. In the literature, the quality of a BP model has been assessed through either the application of formal verification, or most often the evaluation of quality metrics calculated in the static and/or simulated model. Each of these assessment means addresses different quality characteristics and meets particular analysis needs. In this paper, we adopt metrics-based assessment to evaluate the quality of business process models, modeled with Business Process Modeling and Notation (BPMN), in terms of their comprehensibility and modifiability. We propose a fuzzy logic-based approach that uses existing quality metrics for assessing the attainment level of these two quality characteristics. By analyzing the static model, the proposed approach is easy and fast to apply. In addition, it overcomes the threshold determination problem by mining a repository of BPMN models. Furthermore, by relying on fuzzy logic, it resembles human reasoning during the evaluation of the quality of business process models. We illustrate the approach through a case study and its tool support system developed under the eclipse framework. The preliminary experimental evaluation of the proposed system shows encouraging results

Social Business Process Modeling

Capitalizing on Web 2.0 to improve communication and knowledge sharing among stakeholders, a new form of Business Processes (BP), called Social Business Processes (SBP), has emerged. This chapter provides a social business process meta-model called SBP2M that enriches an existing business process meta-model with social aspect. It also proposes a domain specific language (DSL) for SBP modeling. This DSL is defined based on SBP2M and developed as an extension of the standard BPMN notation. The proposed DSL is simple and yet generic thanks to the reduced number of extensions and its ability to model SBP regardless of the used Web 2.0 technology. To show the applicability of the proposed notation, we have implemented it within the BPMN2 modeler editor

Towards a meta-modeling approach for social business process requirements capture

© 2016 ACM. A Social Business Process (SBP) is the result of blending so-cial computing (a.k.a. Web 2.0) with business process (BP). Despite the benefits of SBP to enterprises, several limita-tions continue to undermine them. In this paper, we ad-dress two specific limitations, namely the difficulty of cap-turing SBP\u27s requirements and the lack of a definition for SBP. Thus, meta-modeling is used to capture requirements from organizational, technological, and management per-spectives. In addition, we introduce a definition for SBP by enriching an existing BP meta-model with social con-cepts. To annotate the SBP model with its requirements, a BPMN extension is proposed. The proposed meta-models are evaluated in terms of completeness and clarity using the Bunge-Wand-Weber ontology

Architecture of a Requirements and Design Tool Based on Message Sequence Charts

Message Sequence Charts (MSCs) are increasingly supported in software engineering tools to capture system requirements, test scenarios, and simulation traces of reactive systems. The latest standard syntax of MSCs [12] offers operations to compose MSCs in a hierarchical, iterating, and nondeterministic way. The various operators are a step towards increasing the applicability of MSCs to more than a trace language. However, current tools operate on MSCs that describe finite, deterministic behavior and none of them uses MSCs as a language for requirements specification and design of a system. In this paper, we propose an architecture for an MSC-based tool to support the requirements specification and design phases. The main functionalities of the tool are: an environment for the composition of system models through MSCs, syntactic and model-based analysis of an MSC model, and resolving resource related underspecifications in an MSC model. The proposed tool also supports synthesis mechani..

MESA: Support for Scenario-Based Design of Concurrent Systems

The latest ITU-T standard syntax of Message Sequence Charts (MSCs) [18] offers several operators to compose MSCs in a hierarchical, iterating, and nondeterministic way. The new operators are a step towards increasing the applicability of MSCs to more than a trace language. However, current tools operate on MSCs that describe finite, deterministic behavior and none of them uses MSCs as a language for requirements specification and design of a system. In this paper, we describe the architecture and the partial implementation of Mesa, an MSC-based tool that supports early phases of the software development cycle. The main functionalities of MESA are: an environment for the composition of system models through MSCs, syntactic and model-based analysis of an MSC model, and resolution of resource related underspecifications in an MSC model. In addition, an important design decision in MESA is to support synthesis mechanisms as a means to integrate our tool with available tools, e.g...