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An Aspect-Oriented Framework for Business Process Improvement

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E-Technologies: Innovation in an Open World (MCETECH 2009)

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Abstract

Recently, many organizations invested in Business Process Management Systems (BPMSs) in order to automate and monitor their processes. Business Activity Monitoring is one of the essential modules of a BPMS as it provides the core monitoring capabilities. Although the natural step after process monitoring is process improvement, most of the existing systems do not provide the means to help users with the improvement step. In this paper, we address this issue by proposing an aspect-oriented framework that allows the impact of changes to business processes to be explored with what-if scenarios based on the most appropriate process redesign patterns among several possibilities. As the four cornerstones of a BPMS are process, goal, performance and validation views, these views need to be aligned automatically by any approach that intends to support automated improvement of business processes. Our framework therefore provides means to reflect process changes also in the other views of the business process. A health care case study presented as a proof of concept suggests that this novel approach is feasible.

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  1. SITE, University of Ottawa, 800 King Edward Ave, Ottawa, ON, K1N 6N5, Canada

    Alireza Pourshahid, Gunter Mussbacher & Daniel Amyot

  2. SCE, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6, Canada

    Michael Weiss

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  1. Technologies de l’Information, HEC Montréal, 3000, ch. de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine, H3T 2A7, Montréal, (Québec), Canada

    Gilbert Babin

  2. Institut d’informatique, Université de Neuchâtel, Rue Emile Argand 11, 2000, Neuchâtel, Switzerland

    Peter Kropf

  3. School of Computer Science, Carleton University, K1S 5B6, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

    Michael Weiss

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Pourshahid, A., Mussbacher, G., Amyot, D., Weiss, M. (2009). An Aspect-Oriented Framework for Business Process Improvement. In: Babin, G., Kropf, P., Weiss, M. (eds) E-Technologies: Innovation in an Open World. MCETECH 2009. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 26. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01187-0_25

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