[...]... business process models or business process modeling and management: • • • • Business Process Management Initiative: www.bpmi.org Business Process Modeling Forum: www.bpmodeling.com/ Business Process Trends: www.bptrends.com/ Petri Nets World: www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/TGI/PetriNets The following links give examples of systems for business process modeling to which more information is available on... force users excessively at the implementation level (e.g., modeling with BPMN) and prevent the all-important creative modeling processes For the tools “retrieval of honor,” it must be noted, however, that they were created at a time in which the needs of a participation of whole business communities in the development of business processes were not yet recognized, and the technical possibilities for. .. prerequisite for this evolutionary form of business process development is a permanent monitoring Only then, weaknesses can be identified and the impact of the changes displayed and analyzed All these objectives require a precise definition of the business processes as well as a consistent documentation, which can be achieved by adequate modeling The original method introduced by Hammer and Champy in 1993 for business. .. available 1.3.2 Horus: Business Processes for Business Communities As a result of many years of research at the Institute for Applied Computer Science and Formal Description Methods (AIFB) of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the Karlsruhe Research Center for Computer Science (FZI) in collaboration with industrial partner PROMATIS software GmbH, a whole new generation of tools to support the... components are briefly outlined 1.3.2.1 Petri Net Platform Horus provides a platform for modeling, analysis, and simulation with Petri nets It features simplicity of use and runs on all common operating systems and portable devices As a special net variant, XML nets are supported The platform is free and available for all business communities as well as for teaching and research (Horus 1 Horus—the “Distant... world, business processes increasingly form the crux of any organization Why is this so? Well, the explanation is comparatively simple, if one considers that any change in an organization will be accompanied by changes inseparable with its business processes Changes in the global market are common for the daily agenda: Companies are increasingly forced to adapt to new customers, competitors, and business. .. process in a formal, graphical model For this, we use so-called XML nets, a special form of Petri nets Petri nets, named after German mathematician Carl Adam Petri, have proven to be successful for many years in the modeling of dynamic systems Petri nets are impressive in business process modeling due to the simplicity of the graphical presentation in connection with their expressive power and performance... example, the business objects are shown in a business object model Business objects are described by their attributes and their relationships to other business objects Business objects are generally complex and are then formed by combining several objects and their relations with a so-called aggregate Aggregates will not be considered further at this point; please refer to Chap 3 for additional information... the case in our example The different aspects of the business processes relevant for the companies are fully described, documented, and made transparent for all persons involved, so that they may adequately become a part of the process In addition to a full documentation, the goal of business process management is an improvement or optimization of processes This may occur under different objectives... complement it with formal modeling instruments in organizational work The requirements placed on such instruments in terms of documentation requirements, visualization, analysis, and simulation are fulfilled only when powerful software tools are used Petri nets offer the ideal platform for tool support and the scientific maturity with their approved mathematical foundations for wide practical use 1.2 Modeling . alt="" Business Processes for Business Communities i Frank Sch ¨ onthaler  Gottfried Vossen Andreas Oberweis  Thomas Karle Business Processes for Business. 23 3.1.4 Monitoring 24 3.2 Business Process Modeling Views 24 3.3 Modeling Constructs for Business Processes 29 3.3.1 Elements of Procedure Modeling 30 3.3.2 Dynamics