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Record Nr.

UNINA9910145910803321

Autore

Reijers Hajo A

Titolo

Design and Control of Workflow Processes : Business Process Management for the Service Industry / / by Hajo A. Reijers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2003

ISBN

3-540-36615-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2003.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XII, 328 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, , 0302-9743 ; ; 2617

Disciplina

658.5/1

Soggetti

Production management

Computers

Application software

Database management

User interfaces (Computer systems)

Operations Management

Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary

Theory of Computation

Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet)

Database Management

User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Workflow Modeling -- Workflow Design -- Performance Evaluation of Workflows -- Resource Allocation in Workflows -- Heuristic Workflow Redesign -- System and Practical Experience -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

The motivation behind the conception of this monograph was to advance scientific knowledge about the design and control of workflow processes. A workflow pr- ess (or workflow for short) is a specific type of business process, a way of or- nizing work and resources. Workflows are commonly found within large admin- trative organizations such as banks, insurance companies, and governmental agencies. Carrying out the tasks of a workflow in a particular order is required to handle one type of case. Examples of cases are mortgage applications, customer



complaints, and claims for unemployment benefits. A workflow used in handling mortgage applications may contain tasks for recording the application, specifying a mortgage proposal, and approving the final policy. The monograph concentrates on four workflow-related issues within the area of Business Process Management; the field of designing and controlling business processes. The first issue is how workflows can be adequately modeled. Workflow mod- ing is an indispensable activity to support any reasoning about workflows. Diff- ent purposes of workflow modeling can be distinguished, such as system ena- ment by Workflow Management Systems, knowledge management, costing, and budgeting. The focus of workflow modeling in this monograph is (a) to support simulation and analysis of workflows and (b) to specify a new workflow design. The main formalism used for the modeling of workflows is the Petri net. Many - isting notions to define several relevant properties have been adopted, such as the workflow net and the soundness notion.