Convolution of Complex Process Models and Ratios

The key to enhance the service level of a company or a university is to identify the needs and adapt the service portfolio to the requirements. It is a difference of what could be offered as services and what is really offered. Especially service-oriented architectures (SOA) offer a modern approach to create a service “landscape” that can be easily adapted and opens the possibility to reuse a service in several scenarios. The management of these architectures however is not trivial and implies a need for mapping requirements to services that are already implemented, need to be implemented, or whose implementation should be altered. There are many model-based approaches. All of these lead to the question how to transform requirement models to service models. In this article we propose an approach that offers a semi-automated way of identifying service candidates based on numeric ratios, which can be derived from business process models. The question arises how to generate ratios that should only depend on the requirements itself, not on the way how they are modeled. An answer to that question means to generate ratios that can be used even in distributed modeling projects, where models are created with different levels of detail, different languages, different points of view, etc

Integrating Learning and Business Process Management

Recent research activities in the field of TEL have created a new awareness for intelligent learning infrastructures. To foster the usage of innovative TEL in the workplace, it must be integrated into organizational business operations and aligned with their learning requirements. Being the semantic interface of organizational ICT infrastructure, business processes represent the potential linkage between learning and business IS. Today, most organizations and their supporting ICT systems have incorporated processes as central objects of control. They manage their businesses along their processes, starting with process design over process execution up to process control and monitoring that feed back into improved business process design. As this process lifecycle has become the central instrument of BPM, it lends to be the vehicle for a businessintegrated learning management. This paper aims to position the thesis of a reciprocal relationship between business and learning processes being the prerequisite for prospective integrated workplace learning

VORGEHENSMODELLE ZUR ENTWICKLUNG SERVICEORIENTIERTER SOFTWARESYSTEME

Bei der Entwicklung von Softwaresystemen auf Basis eines serviceorientierten Architekturparadigmas stellt sich die Frage, welches Vorgehensmodell zur Projektabwicklung herangezogen werden kann. In der Literatur werden unterschiedliche Vorgehensmodelle zur serviceorientierten Softwareentwicklung vorgeschlagen. Aus diesen werden 17 Modelle ausgewählt, charakterisiert sowie mit Hilfe eines allgemeinen Rahmens klassifiziert und verglichen. Dabei werden sowohl generelle Merkmale von Vorgehensmodellen als auch SOA-spezifische Vorgehensmerkmale herangezogen

Serviceorientierte Architekturen : Gestaltung, Konfiguration und Ausführungvon Geschäftsprozessen

Die serviceorientierte Architektur (SOA) ist ein in Wissenschaft und Unternehmenspraxis viel diskutiertes Management- und Systemarchitekturkonzept. Dieser Beitrag erklärt die Bedeutung des Geschäftsprozessmanagements für die Serviceorientierung und zeigt auf, wie Prozessmodelle zum Entwurf und zur Realisierung serviceorientierter Architekturen eingesetzt werden können. Hierfür wird ein mehrstufiges Konzept vorgestellt, das eine Gestaltungs-, eine Konfigurations- und eine Ausführungsebene umfasst. Der präsentierte Ansatz, der am Beispiel der Ereignisgesteuerten Prozesskette (EPK), der Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN), der Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) und der Web Services Description Language (WSDL) illustriert wird, schließt die im Forschungsstand bestehende Lücke zwischen der konzeptionellen Modellierung und der serviceorientierten IT-Unterstützung. Als Anwendungsfall dient die Anforderungsanalyse eines Online-Versandhändlers aus dem Bereich der Unterhaltungselektronik. Im Ergebnis wird deutlich, dass in der SOA-Diskussion bislang betriebswirtschaftlich-organisatorischen Aspekten zu wenig Bedeutung beigemessen wurde

Business Process-driven Learning

Abstract: With information technology progressing on a nearly day-to-day basis with respect to technical feasibility, general availability and individual familiarity, challenges of eLearning at the workplace no longer reside in technical impediments. Whereas bulky, unhandy software, weak network connections or low usability used to present the major obstacles, it is now the missing integration of eLearning in organizational processes that hinders its true business value to unfold [1]. Thus, respective research efforts no longer need to focus on pure technical implementations. Rather, they must tackle the issue of effective, i.e. business process-driven learning strategies realized by cutting-edge technology. Methods, concepts and information systems that allow eLearning tools, environments and solutions to be integrated and aligned to companies ’ major business infrastructure loom large in the field of technology-enhanced learning (TEL) as outlined in this paper and based on the recent research of the EU IST integrated project PROLIX (www.prolix-project.org)

Integrating Research in Professional Learning

(13 Billion US- $out of 66 Billion US-$) for professional education in eLearning activities [Corp00]. A similar trend is now becoming apparent for Europe as well. According to research by the Gartner Group, the European market of corporate eLearning had a capacity of 829 million $in 2001, and was supposed to grow to 7.4 billion$ by the year 2004 [Scie01]. Despite these impressive figures, it has repeatedly been reported that the actual impact of research and development (R&D) on learning technologies remains limited so far, indicating that too few R&D results are picked up in actual practice. One of the reasons for this is that technology enhanced learning (TEL) research and researchers are scattered across quite a few distinct communities, with often very limited awareness of the ”outer world”. To counteract against these effects in a positive way and to strengthen European position in the field of professional TEL, new research instruments, like Networks of Excellence, were set up by the European Commission. The EU/IST FP 6 project PROLEARN is such a network of excellence (NoE) that strives to integrate the research in those various communities and will be described within this article. It is one of the flagship projects in the field of TEL that will be bundled by the recently introduced professional learning cluster (PRO-LC), that strives fo