Dagstuhl Seminar Fresh Approaches for Business Process Modeling Welcome Notes

Organizers Richard Hull Agnes Koschmider Hajo A. Reijers William Wong

Fresh Approaches to Business Process Modeling to foster a better understanding of how to ease the access to, and applicability of, business process modeling. We will juxtapose these approaches against emerging pressures on business modeling.

BPM and workflow specialists contribute with knowledge of process modeling in the large. BPM and workflow specialists contribute with knowledge of alternative techniques for modeling and structuring processes. contribute with knowledge of alternative process representations, and visualization methods. Industrial engineers HCI specialists Data analysts contribute with knowledge for supporting a fundamental shift in how processes are modeled.

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Personal information Position: Professor at the University of Cologne PhD and habilitation in Applied Informatics at KIT Design-oriented methods as well as behavioral (empirical studies) Research Interests: Conceptual modeling, Modeling support techniques, Behavior modeling for predictive analysis, Interdisciplinary modeling

Fresh ideas for the seminar Agile creation of business processes schema-free business processes Process model Process data Reference process? Composition of processes? Benefit: Individual predictive analysis Data set Data set Data set Instance 2 Instance 3 Instance 1 BP 3 BP 2 BP 1 Instance 1a Instance 1b

Agenda for Monday Time Action 09:00-10:30 welcome & intro by participants 10:30-11:00 coffee break 11:00-12:30 intro by participants 12:30-14:00 lunch 14:00-15:30 panel discussion & group assignment 15:30-16:00 16:00-18:00 workgroup mode & report results