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Oesterreichisches Forschungsinstitut fuer Artificial Intelligence(OFAI)
Freyung 6/6, A-1010 Wien
Tel: +43-1-5336112-17, Fax: +43-1-5336112-77, Email: sec@ofai.at
Prof. Chihab HANACHI
Toulouse 1 University and IRIT Laboratory, France
"BUSINESS PROCESS FLEXIBILITY: VISITING NEW TRENDS AND OPEN ISSUES"
Workflow Systems (WSs) aim at automating business processes modeled
through three complementary and interconnected models: behavioral,
organizational and informational. WSs used to be limited to support
well-structured administrative procedures, involving simple interactions
between participants (e.g. delegation) within a single organization.
Nowadays, workflow systems and approaches (also called Business Process
Management, BPM) coordinate inter-organizational processes, have to be
coupled to other technologies (CLOUDS, SOA, ...), and are applied to a
variety of fields such as medical protocols, electronic institutions, or
crisis management. In these new dynamic and distributed environments,
new requirements have to be met to support changes, uncertainty and
exceptional situations. Notably, they should support process
adaptiveness and flexibility and high-level interactions between
participants, both at design time and run time.
This presentation visits existing solutions to meet these requirements
and discuss some open issues. More precisely, we will present:
- A brief overview of the principles of workflow and BPM;
- Flexibility in workflow design: from procedural workflows to emerging
ones. How can agent technology help?
- Deontic processes to express permissions, obligations and prohibitions.
- Flexibility in workflow enactment: case handling, deviation, versioning, ...
- Inter-leaving processes and interaction protocols for social BPM.
- Process Mining to adapt BPM models.
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Zeit: Thursday, 6th September 2012, 6.30 p.m. sharp
Ort: Oesterreichisches Forschungsinstitut
fuer Artificial Intelligence, OFAI
Freyung 6, Stiege 6, 1010 Wien.
OESTERREICHISCHES FORSCHUNGSINSTITUT
FUER ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Univ.-Prof. Ing. Dr. Robert Trappl
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