Social software for business process modeling

Koschmider, Agnes; Song, Minseok; Reijers, Hajo A.

doi:10.1057/jit.2009.21

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“…Xia & Wei (2008) A context driven business process adaptation approach in which business process context can be gathered and reasoned to modify process structure. Koschmider et al (2010) Social Software for Process Modelling: Use of social networks to help users to behave as modellers. Users are guided in a recommendation-based process modelling support system to which social features are added.…”

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Innovative Capability of Building Information Modeling in Construction Design

Çıdık

Boyd

Thurairajah

2017

J. Constr. Eng. Manage.

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The construction industry has long been urged to innovate, but innovation has been elusive because of the inherent social and organizational complexity of construction. Therefore, developing insight into the practice of innovating is needed to better understand and perform innovation in construction. Focusing on the practice of innovating requires exploring the enabling capability of solutions for practitioners to establish novel ways of doing things for improvement, referred to as 'innovative capability.' Building information modeling (BIM) has been promoted as an enabler of innovation in construction design because of its data management capabilities and the opportunities for interdisciplinary work based on them. Nevertheless, previous work presents divergent results exploring what BIM technologies can do for people and what people can actually do in BIM-enabled design practices, which presents confusion about the innovative capability of BIM. This paper aims to establish the basis of this confusion as a necessary step in developing more realistic ways of assessing and exploiting this capability. A conceptual continuum is proposed based on the functionalist/technologycentered and nonfunctionalist/human-centered perspectives on BIM to consider divergent arguments about its innovative capability; this continuum is used to analyze empirical findings from BIM-enabled design practices. The analyses suggest that individuals use BIM but are confused about its innovative capability because they adopt different views of BIM depending on their job and perspective. Given this, innovation is held back by the unexpressed differences between the views of BIM adopted by various practitioners who have to work together. It is argued that recognizing these differences, and working toward their reconciliation, is the way forward in establishing and exploiting the innovative capability of BIM.

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Innovative Capability of Building Information Modeling in Construction Design

Çıdık

Boyd

Thurairajah

2017

J. Constr. Eng. Manage.

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“…There are panoply of process modelling grammars including WS BPEL, YAWL and Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN), to cite just some of the most relevant. However, business process modelling tools on the market today are mostly ''one person tools'' and, in the main, do not support an efficient re use of process models, resulting in dissatisfaction of business users with current IT implementations (Koschmider, Song, & Reijers, 2010). On the other hand, according to , , there are several ontological deficiencies of process modelling in practice.…”

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SABUMO: Towards a collaborative and semantic framework for knowledge sharing

López-Cuadrado

Colomo‐Palacios

González‐Carrasco

et al. 2012

Expert Systems with Applications

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a b s t r a c tKnowledge is one the most valuable assets in todays companies. Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques aim to represent the knowledge in a way that can be applied to solving complex problems or supporting decision making processes. During the last years the semantic web techniques have supported the share of knowledge by means of ontologies. Ontologies have been used for both annotating resources and rea soning. Business Process Management is one of the specific fields in which the use of ontologies has been widely applied. This paper presents SABUMO, a framework based on ontologies that allows experts to represent and share their knowledge with other experts by means of shared and controlled vocabularies. The framework also allows the execution of business processes represented by experts. The execution of this knowledge does not require the installation of complex AI programs. Initial results of the evaluation setup show promising results both in usability and recommendation.

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“…In fact, the provided support may even alleviate a modeler's task, particularly in situations when her modeling experience is limited. When process models are being used within an electronic environment, which is an increasingly realistic option [20], the proposed algorithm directly supports the reader herself in arranging the model in a highly readable form (regardless of the original layout).…”

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A linear time layout algorithm for business process models

Gschwind

Pinggera

Zugal

et al. 2014

Journal of Visual Languages & Computing

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The layout of a business process model influences how easily it can be understood. Existing layout features in process modeling tools often rely on graph representations, but do not take the specific properties of business process models into account. In this paper, we propose an algorithm that is based on a set of constraints which are specifically identified toward establishing a readable layout of a process model. Our algorithm exploits the structure of the process model and allows the computation of the final layout in linear time. We explain the algorithm, show its detailed run-time complexity, compare it to existing algorithms, and demonstrate in an empirical evaluation the acceptance of the layout generated by the algorithm. The data suggests that the proposed algorithm is well perceived by moderately experienced process modelers, both in terms of its usefulness as well as its ease of use.

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Social software for business process modeling

Cited by 38 publications

References 35 publications

Innovative Capability of Building Information Modeling in Construction Design

Innovative Capability of Building Information Modeling in Construction Design

SABUMO: Towards a collaborative and semantic framework for knowledge sharing

A linear time layout algorithm for business process models

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