Modern Business Process Automation

Description

This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the field of Business Process Management (BPM) with a focus on Business Process Automation. It achieves this by covering a wide range of topics, both introductory and advanced, illustrated through and grounded in the YAWL (Yet Another Workflow Language) language and corresponding open-source support environment. In doing so it provides the reader with a deep, timeless, and vendor-independent understanding of the essential ingredients of business process automation.

The BPM field is in a continual state of flux and is subject to both the ongoing proposal of new standards and the introduction of new tools and technology. Its fundamentals however are relatively stable and this book aims to equip the reader with both a thorough understanding of them and the ability to apply them to better understand, assess and utilize new developments in the BPM field.

As a consequence of its topic-based format and the inclusion of a broad range of exercises, the book is eminently suitable for use in tertiary education, both at the undergraduate and the postgraduate level, for students of computer science and information systems. BPM researchers and practitioners will also find it a valuable resource. The book serves as a unique reference to a varied and comprehensive collection of topics that are relevant to the business process life-cycle.

CONTENTS:

Part I: Introduction

1) Introduction

 

Part II: Concepts

2) The Language: Rationale and Fundamentals - 3) Advanced Synchronization

 

Part III: Flexibility and Change

4) Dynamic Workflows - 5) Exception Handling - 6) Declarative Workflow

 

Part IV: The Core System

7) The Architecture - 8) The Design Environment - 9) The Runtime Environment

 

Part V: Services

10) The Resource Service - 11) The Worket Service - 12) The Declare Service

 

Part VI: Positioning

13) The Business Process Modeling Notation - 14) Event-Driven Process Chains - 15) The Business Process Executable Language - 16) Open Source Workflow Systems

 

Part VII: Advanced Topics

17) Process Mining and Simulation - 18) Process Configuration - 19) Process Integration - 20) Verification

 

Part VIII: Case Studies

21) YAWL4Healthcare - 22) YAWL4Film

 

Part IX: Epilogue

23) Epilogue

 

Part X: Appendices

A) The Order Fulfillment Process - B) Mathematical Notation - C) The Original Workflow Patterns