Scalable Enterprise Systems: A User-Oriented Framework for Process and Performance Modeling of Enterprise Systems

该赠款为企业系统流程和性能建模的面向用户的框架的设计、开发和测试提供资金。 该框架将集成来自工程、流程建模、会计和分布式计算领域的方法和技术。具体来说，该框架将集成Petri网理论，图形化的过程建模技术，基于活动的管理概念，和互联网的分布式计算范式。 该框架的核心是一组图形化建模结构，一组正式的基于Petri网的表示结构，以及图形模型和Petri网表示之间的映射方案。 将使用XML和面向对象技术开发一个基于Web的框架概念验证软件原型，Petri网理论和图形建模技术在Web环境中的联系是建立面向用户的企业流程建模理论基础的基石。 这项研究将连接两个不同的世界，工程和业务，并将有助于设计，控制，改进和测量企业范围内的流程。 总之，本项目的结果将提供一个理论框架，这将进一步刺激研究和开发新一代的业务流程和性能建模工具，这些工具是面向用户的，图形化的，可扩展的，基于Web的-从而影响专业实践和刺激业务改进。

This grant provides funding for the design, development, and testing of a user-oriented framework for process and performance modeling of enterprise systems. This framework will integrate methods and technologies from the areas of engineering, process modeling, accounting, and distributed computing. Specifically, the framework will integrate Petri net theory, graphical process modeling techniques, activity-based management concepts, and the distributed computing paradigm of the Internet. At the core of the framework is a set of graphical modeling constructs, a set of formal Petri net-based representation constructs, and a mapping scheme between the graphical models and Petri net representations. A proof-of-concept Web-based software prototype of the framework will be developed using XML and object-oriented technologies.The linkage between Petri net theory and graphical modeling techniques in a Web context represents a corner stone in the establishment of a theoretical foundation for user-oriented enterprise process modeling. The research will bridge two distinct worlds, engineering and business, and will help in the design, control, improvement, and measurement of enterprise-wide processes. In summary, the results of this project will provide a theoretical framework, which will further stimulate research and development of a new generation of business process and performance modeling tools that are user-oriented, graphical, scalable, and Web-based -- thereby impacting professional practice and stimulating business improvement.