Overview
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Business Process Configuration is gaining growing consensus among practitioners and academia as the next frontier of business process modelling. Traditionally, business process models are built from scratch whenever the need for new or more streamlined business procedures arises within an organization. Configurable process models offer an alternative to this costly and time-consuming operation by integrating a collection of process model variants in a process family in a single prepacked artefact. This configurable model can then be individualized to suit the requirements of a specific organization or business area, by removing those model parts that are not relevant to the context in question.
Hypothesis: Current languages for capturing and managing variability in process families are not suitable to capture all business requirements related to different process variants.
Aims/Approach This project will start with the review of current approaches for modelling variability in process families. The suitability of these approaches will then be analysed against a set of requirements drawn from an industry case study in the Personal Loans domain. Where needed, this analysis will be complemented with a proposal to extend current approaches in order to support the identified requirements. The target language will be BPMN2.0.
Requirements: GPA 6+, knowledge of business process modelling (e.g. as gained in INB/INN320)
- Study level
- Honours
- Supervisors
- QUT
- Organisational unit
Faculty of Science and Technology
- Research area
- Keywords
- business process
- Contact
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Please contact the supervisor.
Associate Professor Marcello La Rosa
