Control patterns in a health-care network

Kartseva, Vera; Hulstijn, Joris; Gordijn, Jaap; Tan, Yao‐Hua

doi:10.1057/ejis.2010.13

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“…The work in [33] presents a classification of control patterns for business networks in the healthcare industry. In this context, our work can be seen as a specialization of the monitoring pattern, in which a primary actor, who delegates a task to a counter-actor, faces the need for monitoring the execution of the delegated task.…”

Section: Workflow Management Systems Perspective On Cross-organizatiomentioning

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Measures and mechanisms for process monitoring in evolving business networks

Comuzzi

Vonk

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2012

Data & Knowledge Engineering

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This is the accepted version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. Permanent repository link AbstractThe literature on monitoring of cross-organizational processes, executed within business networks, considers monitoring only in the network formation phase, since network establishment determines what can be monitored during process execution. In particular, the impact of evolution in such networks on monitoring is not considered. When a business network evolves, e.g. contracts are introduced, updated, or dropped, or actors join or leave the network, the monitoring requirements of the network actors change as well. As a result, the monitorability of processes in the network may be disrupted. This paper proposes a framework to solve the problem of preserving the monitorability of processes in an evolving business network. We first propose a formal model of business networks, contracts, and monitoring requirements. Then, we model network evolution and the mechanisms to preserve the monitorability of the processes in the network for different types of evolution. In particular, the preservation of monitorability requires the actors in the network to take appropriate actions in case of dependencies between already established contracts, and update their monitoring infrastructure to satisfy the new monitoring requirements introduced by evolution. We also define a set of metrics that can be used for supporting decisions regarding the potential evolution of a business network. A case study in healthcare and the discussion of a prototype implementation show the applicability of our framework in real-world scenarios.

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Section: Workflow Management Systems Perspective On Cross-organizatiomentioning

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Measures and mechanisms for process monitoring in evolving business networks

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2012

Data & Knowledge Engineering

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“…For example, the e3-value ontology [17] was especially developed to evaluate the profitability of e-business models (i.e., value chain designs) and the supply chains, or more appropriately the value nets as e3-value does not assume stable, long-term relationships between partners, they participate in. Later, the e3-value ontology's scope was extended towards generic business models, including non-profit organizations (.e.g., healthcare [33]), and the application domain was widened towards different kinds of strategic…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

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Invariant conditions in value system simulation models

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Poels

2013

Decision Support Systems

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This paper presents a framework for the integration of supply chain (or logistics/distribution), value chain (or financial), and business process (or operational/manufacturing) simulation models, which should facilitate assessing the impact of supply chain and operational changes on an enterprise's financial performance. A Design Science approach is taken to demonstrate that the REA ontology, which provides a shared conceptual ground for these three model types, and its axioms, which describe invariant conditions for value systems, can help to build conceptually sound simulation models and identify the integration points between these models. It is further shown how these three types of simulation models can be integrated into one value system model for discrete event simulation, making use of the ExSpecT simulation tool. With this ontology-based framework, simulation model builders should be able to scope their models better and define integration points with other models, which is expected to promote the (re)use of simulation models for different purposes (e.g., simulating logistical, operational and financial performance).

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“…Monitoring of cross-organizational business processes has been investigated, from a requirements engineering perspective, in [7] and [11]. In order to achieve a successful collaboration, both papers stress the importance of process-and communication-oriented mechanisms to transmit relevant information to interested parties across the network.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

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“…Research on (continuous) monitoring in cross-organizational processes has usually taken an information-centric perspective, focusing on the definition of monitoring requirements for the collaborating parties and their evolution [6,11], the design of architectures and tools to capture monitoring information [17], the detection of contract violations, given the available monitoring information [3], or the verification of the compliance of execution logs to a process specification [18].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Although the information-centric view can suffice for intra-organizational process monitoring, where all monitoring information is produced in a given business domain, in cross-organizational settings researchers stress the importance of process-and communication-oriented mechanisms to transmit relevant information to interested parties across the collaborative network [7,11]. In other words, once the monitoring information is captured and made available by the collaborating parties, a process must be built to allow a specific party to retrieve (or be delivered) the monitoring information in the right way.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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