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Navigating in Complex Business Processes

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Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2012)

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Abstract

In order to provide information needed in knowledge-intense business processes, large companies often establish intranet portals, which enable access to their process handbook. Especially, for large business processes comprising hundreds or thousands of process steps, these portals can help to avoid time-consuming access to paper-based process documentation. However, business processes are usually presented in a rather static manner within these portals, e.g., as simple drawings or textual descriptions. Companies therefore require new ways of making large processes and process-related information better explorable for end-users. This paper picks up this issue and presents a formal navigation framework based on linear algebra for navigating in large business processes.

This research has been done in the niPRO project funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) under grant number 17102X10.

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  1. Group Research & Advanced Engineering, Daimler, AG, Germany

    Markus Hipp

  2. University of Applied Sciences Ravensburg, Weingarten, Germany

    Bela Mutschler

  3. Institute of Databases and Information Systems, University of Ulm, Germany

    Manfred Reichert

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  1. Marriott School,, Brigham Young University, 784 TNRB, 84602, Provo, UT, USA

    Stephen W. Liddle

  2. Software Competence Center Hagenberg, Softwarepark 21, 4232, Hagenberg, Austria

    Klaus-Dieter Schewe

  3. Institute of Software Technology & Interactive Systems, Vienna University of Technology, Favoritenstr. 9-11/188, 1040, Vienna, Austria

    A Min Tjoa

  4. School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, University of Queensland, 4072, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

    Xiaofang Zhou

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Hipp, M., Mutschler, B., Reichert, M. (2012). Navigating in Complex Business Processes. In: Liddle, S.W., Schewe, KD., Tjoa, A.M., Zhou, X. (eds) Database and Expert Systems Applications. DEXA 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7447. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32597-7_42

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