Business Process Management

Semester: Β,
ECTS: 7.5

Vassilis Gerogiannis

(Course Coordinator)

Syllabus – IMC23

Week 1: Organizing Workflows
Week 2: Modeling Workflows
Week 3: Management of Workflows
Week 4: Analyzing Workflows
Week 5: Data Science, Big Data, Process Mining
Week 6: Decision Trees and Association Rule
Week 7: Event logs, process models, Petri Nets
Week 8: Transition Systems – Alpha Algorithm
Week 9: Quality and Representational Bias – Dependency Graphs
Week 10: Process Discovery – Conformance Checking
Week 11: Mining Bottlenecks, Social Networks and Organizational Mining
Week 12: Operational Support – Getting Event Data
Week 13: Conducting a Process Mining Project

Suggested Bibliography

  • Aalst, W. M. P. van der. “The Application of Petri Nets to Workflow Management.” The Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Computers, 8:l(1998):21-66.

  • Aalst, W. M. P. van der and K. M. van Hee, Workflow Management Models, Methods, and Systems   The MIT Press Cambridge,  Massachusetts London, England

  • Jablonski, S. and C. Bussler. Workflow Management: Modeling Concepts, Architecture, and Implementation. London: International Thomson Computer Press, 1996.

  • Leymann, F. and D. Roller. Production Workflow: Concepts and Techniques. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 2000.

  • Adam, N. R., V. Atluri, and W. Huang. “Modeling and Analysis of Workflows using Petri Nets.” Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, 10:2(1998):131-158.

  • Ellis, C. A. “Information Control Nets: A Mathematical Model of Office Information Flow.” In Proceedings of the Conference on Simulation, Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, 225-240, Boulder, Colorado: ACM Press, 1979.

  • Ellis, C. A. and G. J. Nutt. “Modeling and Enactment of Workflow Systems.” In Application and Theory of Petri Nets 1993, volume 691 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Edited by M. Ajmone Marsan. 1-16. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1993.

  • Aalst, W. M. P. van der, and T. Basten. “Inheritance of Workflows: An Approach to Tackling Problems Related to Change.” Theoretical Computer Science, 2000 (forthcoming).

  • Aalst, W. M. P. van der. “Process Mining Data Science in Action” Springer (2016) 2nd Edition.

  • Schal, T. Workflow Management for Process Organizations, volume 1096 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1996.

  • Georgakopoulos, D., M. Hornick, and A. Sheth. “An Overview of Workflow Management: From Process Modeling to Workflow Automation Infrastructure.“ Distributed and Parallel Databases, 3(1995):119-153.

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