Workflow, Maintenance and Re-engineering

Course aim

To introduce the principles, design/development approaches, software, operational management and standards related to workflow – a key technology for business process management and component-based computing –along with methods, tools and techniques for re-engineering of computer information systems.

Course content

Introduction to business process re-engineering and workflow management: Trends in work and business management; suitable environments for workflow management.
Process modelling: Designing workflow and process models using Petri Nets and workflow specification languages; mapping Petri-Nets to workflow models; verification of the structural correctness of workflow process models.
Management of workflows: Consideration of temporal aspects and resources; data perspective and workflow-relevant data; managing the operation of workflows; transactional aspects; case handling.
Workflow management systems: Architecture and components of a WfMS; the Workflow Management Coalition standard; introduction to one real workflow system; workflow application design issues; relation to groupware and document management systems.
Reengineering: overall methodology for application reengineering; building web-based applications; design for distribution integration between legacy and new systems at data, user interface and application levels; model-driven software development
Software architectures and Middleware: comparison of software architectural principles; monolithic, component-oriented and distributed architectures; middleware; service-oriented architecture.

Textbook(s)

Marlon Dumas, Wil M. van der Aalst, Arthur H. ter Hofsted 2005, Process-Aware Information Systems: Bridging People and Software Through Process Technology, ISBN: 978-0-471-66306-5, Wiley

Prerequisite(s)

Corequisite(s)

Nil

Teaching method

Note: These components may or may not be scheduled in every study period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.

Assessment

Examination, Project part 1, Project part 2, Seminar submissions on- modelling a real-world processes

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.125
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