Goal and Aspect-oriented Business Process Engineering (GAoBPE)

面向目标和方面的业务流程工程 (GAoBPE)

• 批准号: 262050-2013
• 负责人: Amyot, Daniel
• 金额: $ 2.19万
• 依托单位: University of Ottawa
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2015-01-01 至 2016-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=571219
• 关键词: Goal; Aspect; oriented; Business; Process

A business process is a collection of related, structured activities that help achieve particular goals of one or many stakeholders. Many of these activities and processes are nowadays being automated in various domains such as e-commerce, e-health, and e-government. Typical examples include the processing of tax reports or of loan requests, the clinical treatment of cardiac patients, and the admission of university students. Business processes are no longer just being designed, implemented and tested; they are now fully "engineered" with additional modelling, monitoring, and management activities. Although research, tools, and methodologies related to business processes have acquired much maturity in the past decade, they often have a narrow view of processes without proper consideration for alignment with stakeholder objectives and for proper separation of concerns. Recent developments in the software engineering domain can help here: goal modelling is a common approach for ensuring that software and processes are aligned with their objectives, whereas aspect-oriented modelling promotes advanced modularity and reuse. The main objective of this research is to evolve standard-based languages (such as the User Requirements Notation), methodologies and tools for the engineering of business processes in a way that exploits goal alignment and aspect-oriented modularization. These processes will even be monitored against stakeholder objectives in such a way as to adapt automatically to their environment. The benefits and limitations of an approach that combines goals, processes, indicators and aspects for business process engineering will be evaluated in different contexts, from healthcare clinical processes to regulatory compliance. This research will benefit healthcare, financial, and governmental organizations as their business processes and objectives are becoming increasingly formalized and monitored, and having processes adapt automatically to changing contexts will improve the quality and competitiveness of these organizations. Software consultants and tool vendors will also be able to incorporate the results in their services and products.

业务流程是一组相关的、结构化的活动，有助于实现一个或多个利益相关者的特定目标。如今，许多这些活动和流程正在电子商务、电子医疗和电子政务等各个领域实现自动化。典型的例子包括税务报告或贷款申请的处理、心脏病患者的临床治疗以及大学生的入学。业务流程不再只是设计、实施和测试；而是被设计、实施和测试。它们现在已经完全“设计”了额外的建模、监控和管理活动。 尽管与业务流程相关的研究、工具和方法在过去十年中已经非常成熟，但它们通常对流程有狭隘的看法，没有适当考虑与利益相关者目标的一致性以及适当的关注点分离。软件工程领域的最新发展可以在这方面提供帮助：目标建模是确保软件和流程与其目标保持一致的常用方法，而面向方面的建模则促进高级模块化和重用。 这项研究的主要目标是以利用目标对齐和面向方面的模块化的方式发展用于业务流程工程的基于标准的语言（例如用户需求表示法）、方法和工具。这些流程甚至将根据利益相关者的目标进行监控，以自动适应其环境。结合业务流程工程的目标、流程、指标和方面的方法的优点和局限性将在不同的背景下进行评估，从医疗保健临床流程到监管合规性。 这项研究将使医疗保健、金融和政府组织受益，因为他们的业务流程和目标变得越来越正规化和受到监控，并且让流程自动适应不断变化的环境将提高这些组织的质量和竞争力。软件顾问和工具供应商也将能够将结果纳入他们的服务和产品中。