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In this course, we understand why Business
Process Management (BPM) is a Number 1 priority for any CEO and CIO
today. Starting from recent trends in Business and IT, we look at the
BPM life cycle and technology stack, familiarize ourselves with its
state of the art and discuss open research problems.
The course consists of 4 parts and is accompanied by practical exercises in
business process modeling, simulation, and the application of process
patterns.
Part 1 introduces BPM, the BPM life cycle, technology stack and basics of the BPM methodology.
In Part 2, students learn the version 2 of the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) standard, accepted by the OMG this summer.
In Part 3, we discuss the most common patterns and anti-patterns in business process modeling and learn how they can be used to improve the quality of a business process management solution.
Part 4 extends our considerations beyond process modeling and discusses holistic approaches incorporating data, resources, agents and adding a systemic and anthropological point of view.
Jana Koehler holds a Ph.D. from Saarland
University Saarbrücken, Germany, and leads the Business Integration
Technologies group at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory. She joined IBM
in Spring 2001 after having worked as a researcher at the German
Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), as an assistant
professor at the University of Freiburg, and as a project manager at
Schindler Elevators R&D.
Her current work focuses on software
engineering and compiler-based methods for process-oriented distributed
systems. Major milestones of her previous work are novel algorithmic
techniques that enabled AI planning systems to scale to complex
realistic problems and a software architecture and algorithms that
permitted the commercial breakthrough of destination control systems in
the elevator industry. She has published well-cited papers in artificial
intelligence and business process management, won several scientific
and best-paper awards and was nominated for full professorships in
Computer Science. Jana Koehler is a life-time member of the Association
for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), a member of the
German Society for Informatics (GI), and president of the DFKI alumni
network. She is a regular reviewer of major conferences and journals in
her fields of expertise and occasionally works as a reviewer for
national science funding organizations. In 2009, she is the Industry
Chair of the 7th International Conference on Business Process
Management.