How Modern Technologies Influence Business Process Management

How Context-aware Technologies Influence Business Process ManagementXiaohui Zhao, University of Canberra

Dr. Xiaohui ZhaoUniversity of Canberra, AustraliaWorked in New Zealand, the Netherlands, and JapanTechNZ Grant from New Zealand Ministry of Science and Innovation

Business Process ModellingIntegration of BPM into RFID-enabled ApplicationsFlexible Service DeliveryBusiness Process Management1 of Gartners top 3 strategic technologies (2008)Standardise and automate business process operations1920s1990s2000Document flow (OA)ERPCBP (B2B, B2C)Implicit processEAISCMVOAIntra-organisationInter-organisationStaticDynamichardcoded business logicisolated functional unitsmodel driven process designService oriented architecture, rule driven process automation U$ 1.065B, 2005U$ 5.3B, 2017By Global Industry Analysts

Xiaohui Zhao, Uni .of CanberraContext-awareness Technology

Building AutomationTraffic Control

Smart Appliances

Sensor-enabled awareness to the contextual information, such as time, temperature, humidity, consumption of food, vehicle locations, etc., subject to application domains.

Intelligent Wheeled Chair

Real-Time Supply Chain ManagementSelf-Switch on/off ATMWhat if context-aware BPM?BPM presentContext-aware BPMEnergy, material-efficient operations (production, etc.)Highly personalised service(eLearning, tourism, etc.)Reliable planning, business continuity (SCM)Xiaohui Zhao, Uni .of CanberraChallenges / Research TopicsXiaohui Zhao, Uni .of CanberraHow and Where to StartOntology, SBVR, conversion of context events into business events [4, 5, 6]ECA Rules, Artifact-centric [8, 9]Process change operations according to change patterns [2, 3, 7]Version preserving graph, Version tree/page/space [1]Context awareness extensions to BPMN and BPELXiaohui Zhao, Uni .of CanberraReference List[1] X. Zhao and C. Liu, Version Management for Business Process Schema Evolution. Information Systems, 38(8). pp.1046-1069. Elsevier. 2013.[2] J. Xu, C. Liu, X. Zhao, and Z. Ding, Incorporating Structural Improvement into Resource Allocation for Business Process Execution Planning, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 25(3), pp.427-442, 2013. Wiley.[3] X. Zhao, C. Liu, Y. Yang, and W. Sadiq, CorPN: Managing Instance Correspondence in Collaborative Business Processes, Distributed and Parallel Database. 29(4), pp.309-332. 2011. Springer Publisher.[4] X. Zhao, C. Liu, and T. Lin, Incorporating Business Logics into RFID-enabled Applications, Information Processing & Management. 48(1), pp.47-62. 2012. Elsevier Publisher. [5] X. Zhao, C. Liu, and T. Lin, Incorporating Business Process Management into RFID-enabled Application Systems, Business Process Management Journal. Vol 16(6), pp.932-953. 2010. Emerald Publisher.[6] X. Zhao, and C. Liu, Steering Dynamic Collaborations between Business Processes, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Vol 40 (4), pp.743-757. 2010.[7] X. Zhao and J. Campbell, Towards Connecting Online Interfacing and Core Business Processes, Australasian Conference on Information Systems(ACIS 2013). Melbourne, Australia.[8] S. Yongchareon, C. Liu, and X. Zhao,A Framework for Behavior-Consistent Specialization of Artifact-Centric Business Processes, International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2012). pp.285-301. Tallinn, Estonia. [9] S. Yongchareon, C. Liu, and X. Zhao, An Artifact-centric View-based Approach to Modeling Inter-organizational Business Processes, International Conference on Web Information System Engineering (WISE 2011). pp.273-281. Sydney, Australia.Xiaohui Zhao, Uni .of Canberra

Xiaohui Zhao, Uni .of Canberra