Advanced Topic in Business Intelligence (2013-14)

This course is part of the MSc in Computer Science at the University of Camerino (a.y. 2013/14).

Main Topics

• Foundation
  • Business Process and Business Process Models
  • Business Process Life-Cycle
  • Business Process Management
  • Evolution of Enterprise Systems Architectures
• Business Process Modelling
  • Business Process Modelling Foundation
  • Process Orchestrations
  • Process Choreographies
  • Properties of Business Processes

• Architectures and Methodologies
  • Business Process Management Architectures
  • Business Process Methodology

Books

• Mathias Weske. 2010. Business Process Management: Concepts, Languages, Architectures (1st ed.). Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated.

Exams

• 30/01/14 – 12.00 a.m. – Results
• 14/02/14 – 12.00 a.m. – Results
• 28/02/14 – 12.00 a.m.
• 05/06/14 – 12.00 a.m.
• 24/06/14 – 12.00 a.m.
• 16/07/14 – 12.00 a.m.
• 15/09/14 – 12.00 a.m.
• 14/10/14 – 12.00 a.m.

Scheduling

• Lesson – 1 October 2013 (2h) – Course Introduction
• Lesson – 8 October 2013 (2h) – Introduction to BPM
• Lesson – 9 October 2013 (2h) – Work Centered Analysis Frameworks
• Lesson – 15 October 2013 (2h) –  Enterprise System Architecture
• Lesson – 16 October 2013 (2h) – Process Orchestration Patterns
• Lesson – 22 October 2013 (2h) – Petri Net
• Lesson – 23 October 2013 (2h) – Carrier Day!
• Lesson – 29 – 30 October 2013 (2h + 2h) – BPMN 2.0
• Lesson – 5 November 2013 (2h) –  BPMN 2.0 by example
• Lesson – 6 November 2013 (2h) – Mapping from semi-formal to formal languages
• Lesson – 12 November 2013 (2h) – Stop!
• Lesson – 13 November 2013 (2h) – Stop!
• Lesson – 19 November 2013 (2h) – Unfolding BP
• Lesson – 20 November 2013 (2h) – Unfolding BP into practice
• Lesson – 26 November 2013 (2h) – Snow
• Lesson – 27 November 2013 (2h) – Snow
• Lesson – 3 December 2013 (2h) – BP modelling – Exercise (Bike – Manufactury BP)
• Lesson – 4 December 2013 (2h) – BP modeling
• Lesson – 11 December 2013 (2h) – SLR in Adaptability – Flexibility issues in BPM
• Lesson –  17 Decembre 2013 (2h) – Verification

More details on the Unfolding Exercise

• Petri and Occurrence Net
• Unfolding Table 

Readings

• Moving toward e-business as usual [pdf]
• Understanding systems from a business viewpoint [pdf]
• Design science in information system research [pdf]
• A framework for information system architecture [pdf]
• BPMN 2.0 specification [link]
• BPMN 2.0 – manifesto [pdf]
• A technique of state space search based on unfolding [pdf]

• Semantics and analysis of business process models in BPMN [link]

• Petri Net: Properties, Analysis and Applications [pdf]
• Flexibility issues in process-aware information system [link]

Handouts in Powerpoint format are available on request. If interested, please send an Email to barbara.re@unicam.it