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Methods for the specification and verification of business processes

MPB 2017/18 (295AA, 6 cfu)

part of Business Performance Analysis (APA 2017/18, 417AA, 12 cfu)

Lecturer: Roberto Bruni

Contact: web - email - phone 050 2212785 - fax 050 2212726

Question time: Wednesday 14:00-16:00 or by appointment


Objectives

The course aims to reconcile abstraction techniques and high-level diagrammatic notations together with modular and structural approaches. The objective is to show the impact of the analysis and verification properties of business processes on the choice of the best suited specification and modelling languages. At the end of the course, the students will gain some familiarity with business process terminology, with different models and languages for the representation of business processes, with different kinds of logical properties that such models can satisfy and with different analysis and verification techniques. The students will also experiment with some tools for the design and analysis of business processes.


Course Overview

Business process management. Evolution of Enterprise Systems Architectures. Conceptual models and abstraction mechanisms. Petri nets: invariants, S-systems, T-systems, Free-choice systems and their properties. Workflow nets and workflow modules. Workflow patterns. Event-driven Process Chains (EPC). Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN). Yet Another Workflow Language (YAWL). Business Process Execution Language (BPEL). Process Mining.


Textbook(s)


Quick reference(s)


Tool(s)

http://woped.dhbw-karlsruhe.de/woped/ http://www.win.tue.nl/woflan/doku.php 188072_149141125103453_6888195_q.jpg http://www.visual-paradigm.com/product/vpuml


Exams

The evaluation will be based on mid-term written exams, a group project and an oral exam. The final score will be obtained by combining the scores of the above exams with equal weight.

The mid-term exam will be held on: Thursday 02/11 at 14:00-16:00 in room A1.
Registration to the exam is mandatory.

The student must demonstrate the ability to put into practice and to execute, with critical awareness, the activities illustrated or carried out under the guidance of the teacher during the course.


Announcements

  • An additional lecture has been scheduled on tuesday 17/10 (16:00-18:00, room L1) to replace the one canceled on 6/10.
  • The lecture of friday 6/10 has been canceled because of the Internet Festival. If necessary it will be re-scheduled in the next weeks.
  • as the course starts:
    Each student should send an email to the professor from his/her favourite email account with subject MPB17 and the following data
    (by doing so, the account will be included in the class mailing-list, where important announcements can be sent):
    1. first name and last name (please clarify which is which, to avoid ambiguities)
    2. enrolment number (numero di matricola)
    3. bachelor degree (course of study and university)

Lectures (first half)

N Date Time Room Lecture notes Topics Links
1 Wed 20/09 16:00-18:00 A1 Lecture 1 Course introduction:
course objectives, textbooks,
BPM aim and motivation,
models and abstraction
2 Fri 22/09 14:00-16:00 L1 Lecture 2 Introduction to Business Processes:
work units, processes, terminology,
organizational structures,
process management
3 Wed 27/09 16:00-18:00 A1 Examples Examples and Exercises
4 Fri 29/09 14:00-16:00 L1 Exercises
Lecture 3
Business Processes Lifecyle:
design and analysis, configuration,
enactment, evaluation,
administration and stakeholders
5 Wed 04/10 16:00-18:00 A1 Lecture 4
Lecture 5
Business Process Modelling Abstractions:
conceptual model, workflow management,
horizontal abstraction,
aggregation abstraction,
vertical abstraction,
value chains and value systems, Taylorism,
from business functions to processes


Business Process Methodology:
levels of business processes,
business strategies, operational goals,
organizational BP, operational BP,
implemented BP, design guidelines
# Fri 06/10 14:00-16:00 L1 Canceled Lecture canceled because of the Internet Festival
6 Wed 11/10 16:00-18:00 A1 Lecture 6
Lecture 7
Evolution of Enterprise Systems Architectures:
separation of concerns, sw architectures
individual enterprise applications,
enterprise resource planning system,
siloed enterprise applications,
enterprise application integration,
message-oriented middleware,
enterprise service computing


Introduction to Petri nets:
finite state automata
7 Fri 13/10 14:00-16:00 L1 Exercises (from Lecture 7)
Petri nets (from Lecture 7)
Lecture 8
Introduction to Petri nets:
from finite state automata to Petri nets

More concepts about Petri nets:
multisets and markings,
transition enabling and firing, firing sequences,
reachable markings, occurrence graph
Woped
8 Tue 17/10 16:00-18:00 L1 Exercises (from Lecture 7)
Exercises (from Lecture 8)
Modelling with Petri nets:
Examples and Exercises
9 Wed 18/10 16:00-18:00 A1 Lecture 9
Lecture 10 (1st part)
Behavioural properties:
liveness, place liveness, deadlock freedom,
boundedness, safeness, cyclicity


Structural properties:
weak and strong connectedness,
S-systems, T-systems, free-choice nets


Nets as matrices:
incidence matrices, markings as vectors,
Parikh vectors, marking equation lemma
10 Fri 20/10 14:00-16:00 L1 Exercises (from Lecture 9)
Lecture 10 (2nd part)
Lecture 11 (1st part)
Nets as matrices:
marking equation lemma (proof), monotonicity lemma,
boundedness lemma, repetition lemma


Invariants:
S-invariants, fundamental property of S-invariants,
alternative characterization of S-invariant
11 Wed 25/10 16:00-18:00 A1 Exercises (from Lecture 10)
Exercises (from Lecture 11)
Lecture 11 (2nd part)
Lecture 12
Lecture 13 (1st part)
Invariants:
support, positive S-invariants,
about boundedness, reachability and liveness,
T-invariants, fundamental property of T-invariants,
alternative characterization of T-invariants,
reproduction lemma,
about liveness and boundedness


Other properties of nets:
connectedness theorems, exchange lemmas
(their proofs are optional reading)


Workflow nets:
definition, syntax sugar
12 Fri 27/10 14:00-16:00 L1 Exercises (from Lecture 11)
Exercises (from Lecture 12)
Lecture 13 (2nd part)
Lecture 14
Workflow nets:
subprocesses, control flow aspects, triggers

Analysis of workflow nets:
structural analysis, activity analysis,
token analysis, net analysis,
verification and validation,
reachability analysis, coverability graph, soundness,
N*, strong connectedness of N*,
main soundness theorem
Woped
13 Thu 02/11 14:00-16:00 A1 Mid-Term Exam Registration
(look at past exercises)

Lectures (second half)

N Date Time Room Lecture notes Topics Links
14 Wed 08/11 16:00-18:00 A1 Solutions to mid-term exam
Exercises (from Lecture 13)
Exercises (from Lecture 14)
Lecture 15
Lecture 16 (1st part)
Workflow nets:
soundness (and safeness) by construction

S-systems:
fundamental property of S-systems,
S-invariants of S-nets, liveness theorem
15 Fri 10/11 14:00-16:00 L1 Exercises (from Lecture 15)
Lecture 16 (2nd part)
Lecture 17 (updated 16/11)
A note on P and NP (optional reading)
S-systems:
reachability lemma, reachability theorem,
boundedness theorem, workflow S-nets


T-systems:
circuits and token count on a circuit,
fundamental property of T-systems,
T-invariants of T-nets,
boundedness in strongly connected T-systems,
liveness theorem for T-systems,
boundedness theorem for live T-systems,
workflow T-nets


Decision problems and computational complexity (optional reading)
16 Wed 15/11 16:00-18:00 A1 Exercises (from Lecture 16)
Exercises (from Lecture 17)
Lecture 18 (1st part)
Free-choice nets:
Fundamental property of free-choice nets,
clusters, stability, siphons, proper siphons,
fundamental property of siphons,
siphons and liveness, siphons and deadlock
traps, proper traps,
fundamental property of traps,
a sufficient condition for deadlock freedom,
place-liveness and liveness in f.c. nets,
non-liveness and unmarked siphons in f.c. nets,
Commoner's theorem, complexity issues, Rank theorem
17 Fri 17/11 14:00-16:00 L1 Exercises (from Lecture 18)
Lecture 18 (2nd part)
Lecture 19 (1st part)
Free-choice nets:
S-cover, T-cover

Diagnosis of Workflow nets:
Woped, Woflan, ProM, TP-handles, PT-handles,
well-handled nets, well-structured wf nets
Woped
Woflan
ProM
18 Wed 22/11 16:00-18:00 A1 Exercises (from Lecture 18)
Lecture 19 (2nd part)
Lecture 20
Diagnosis of Workflow nets:
error sequences, non-live sequences,
unbounded sequences


Workflow systems:
workflow modules, strong and weak compatibility,
workflow system, weak soundness,
DF,k-controllability, LF,k-controllability
19 Fri 24/11 14:00-16:00 L1 Exercises (from Lecture 19)
Exercises (from Lecture 20)
Lecture 21 (1st part)
EPC:
Notation, semantics ambiguities and problems,
corresponding split, matching split,
policies (wfa, fc, et), from EPC to nets
yEd
VP
20 Wed 29/11 16:00-18:00 A1 Exercises (from Lecture 21)
Lecture 21 (2nd part)
Lecture 22 (1st part)
EPC:
from EPC to free-choice nets,
relaxed soundness, from EPC to nets again


BPMN:
Notation, swimlanes, flow objects,
artefacts, connecting objects
yEd
Yaoqiang
BPMN.io
BPMS
Bizagi
VP
ProM
21 Fri 1/12 14:00-16:00 L1 Exercises (from Lecture 21)
Lecture 22 (2nd part)
BPMN:
a few patterns, conversations, choreographies,
collaborations, from BPMN to nets
22 Wed 6/12 16:00-18:00 A1 Exercises (from Lectures 22)
Lecture 23 (optional reading)
Lecture 24 (1st part)
BPEL (optional reading):
BPEL structured constructs, links,
transition condition, join condition,
from BPEL to nets


Quantitative analysis:
Performance dimensions and objectives,
KPI, cyle time analysis, Little's law
23 Wed 13/12 16:00-18:00 A1 Exercises (from Lecture 24)
Lecture 24 (2nd part)
Lecture 26
Quantitative analysis:
Cost analysis

Process mining:
Event logs, discovery, conformance,
enhancement, perspectives, play-in, play-out,
replay, overfitting, underfitting
alpha-algorithm, footprint matrix,
naive fitness, improved fitness
ProM
24 Fri 15/12 14:00-16:00 L1 Exercises (from Lecture 26)
Lecture 25
Simulation:
resource allocation, classification diagrams,
capacity planning, simulation parameters,
task durations, BIMP
BIMP
Woped
ProM
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