On Application Of Structural Decomposition For Process Model Abstraction

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MEASURE Evaluation presented resources at a USAID meeting in Malawi. Their results framework focused on strengthening health data collection and use, improving health information system management, and increasing evaluation capacity. They highlighted several resources including skills for health information and systems, an indicator toolkit for child and household well-being, evaluation and learning capabilities, support for health information system strengthening to achieve PEPFAR results, a learning agenda for demonstrating health information system strengthening, and gender sensitive approaches including a youth assessment method. MEASURE Evaluation is funded by USAID to work with various partners to strengthen health information systems.

As business process management is increasingly applied in practice, more companies document their operations in the form of process models. Since users require descriptions of one process on various levels of detail, there are often multiple models created for the same process. Business process model abstraction emerged as a technique reducing the number of models to be stored: given a detailed process model, business process model abstraction delivers abstract representations for the same process. A key problem in many abstraction scenarios is the transition from detailed activities in the initial model to coarse-grained activities in the abstract model. This transition is realized by an aggregation operation clustering multiple activities to a single one. So far, humans decide on how to aggregate, which is expensive. This paper presents a semi-automated approach to activity aggregation that reduces the human effort significantly. The approach takes advantage of an activity meronymy relation, i.e., part-of relation defined between activities. The approach is semi-automated, as it proposes sets of meaningful aggregations, while the user still decides. The approach is evaluated by a real-world use case.

Artur Caetano, José Borbinha, José Tribolet, An Application of Role Modelling to the Decomposition of Business Processes

Functional decomposition involves breaking down complex business functions or project scopes into their component parts to better understand relationships and requirements. Business analysts use functional decomposition during requirements analysis to break organizational units or solution scopes into manageable pieces. Each component part may have its own requirements. Functional decomposition produces diagrams that decompose high levels functions into lower levels of detail through discussions with stakeholders and subject matter experts.

The document discusses various software testing techniques. It covers the objectives of testing as finding errors and having a high probability of discovering undiscovered errors. It describes different types of testing like white-box testing, which tests internal logic and paths, and black-box testing, which tests external functionality. Specific techniques covered include basis path testing, equivalence partitioning, boundary value analysis, and graph-based testing methods. The importance of testability, traceability, simplicity, and understandability are emphasized.

As companies more and more often turn to documenting their business processes in models, the task of managing large model collections becomes essential. There is a number of techniques simplifying this task, e.g., construction of customized process views and business process model abstraction. The latter aims at deriving abstract process representations from existing low-level models omitting details irrelevant for the current task. A number of papers on process model abstraction conceptualized the abstraction problem and proposed algorithms handling simplistic models. To the best of our knowledge there is no work discussing abstraction of models in BPMN. In this paper we present an abstraction approach, addressing specific features of BPMN 1.2. The abstraction approach is order-preserving and is capable of handling graph-structured process models.

Business process management experiences a large uptake by the industry, and process models play an important role in the analysis and improvement of processes. While an increasing number of sta becomes involved in actual modeling practice, it is crucial to assure model quality and homogeneity along with providing suitable aids for creating models. In this paper we consider the problem of oering recommendations to the user during the act of modeling. Our key contribution is a concept for dening and identifying action patterns - chunks of actions often appearing together in business processes. In particular, we specify action patterns and demonstrate how they can be identied from existing process model repositories using association rule mining techniques. Action patterns can then be used to suggest additional actions for a process model. Our approach is challenged by applying it to the collection of process models from the SAP Reference Model.

This functional decomposition diagram breaks down the major functions of a business into primary functions like engineering, manufacturing, distribution, and support functions like administration, finance, human resources, and marketing and sales. The engineering function includes research and development, design of products and processes, and quality engineering. Manufacturing involves planning production, converting resources into products, and maintenance. Distribution consists of inventory management and shipping products.

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In this session participants will work with experts to develop a sample logical framework for their project. o OBJECTIVE: Participants will identify inputs, activities, outputs, outcomes, and impacts for their projects

The document introduces Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) which is a standard for modeling business processes. It discusses BPMN elements like flow objects, connecting objects, and swimlanes. It explains how BPMN helps with requirement documentation, analysis and development by allowing quick modeling of workflows and bridging communication gaps between stakeholders and developers. The document also provides examples of BPMN diagrams and open source BPMN tools like Bizagi.

BPMN (Business Process Model and Notation) is a standard for business process modeling that provides a graphical notation for specifying business processes. It allows processes to be designed and shared between BPMS tools. ProcessMaker's BPMN Designer supports modeling processes and collaborations using BPMN. Key BPMN elements include events, activities, gateways, sequence flows, participants, and artifacts. BPMN enables visual representation of business processes through different types of diagrams.

This document discusses algorithms for finding minimum and maximum elements in an array, including simultaneous minimum and maximum algorithms. It introduces dynamic programming as a technique for improving inefficient divide-and-conquer algorithms by storing results of subproblems to avoid recomputing them. Examples of dynamic programming include calculating the Fibonacci sequence and solving an assembly line scheduling problem to minimize total time.

Sira Yongchareon, Chengfei Liu, Xiaohui Zhao, Marek Kowalkiewicz: BPMN Process Views Construction. In: DASFAA 2010:550-564