Authors:
Dario Campagna
;
Stefano Costanzo
;
Carlos Kavka
and
Alessandro Turco
Affiliation:
ESTECO SpA, Italy
Keyword(s):
Business Process Modeling, Business Process Execution, Decision Support Systems.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
;
Business Analytics
;
Business Process Management
;
Cardiovascular Technologies
;
Computing and Telecommunications in Cardiology
;
Data Engineering
;
Decision Support Systems
;
Decision Support Systems, Remote Data Analysis
;
e-Business
;
Enterprise Engineering
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Health Engineering and Technology Applications
;
Knowledge Management and Information Sharing
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Symbolic Systems
Abstract:
The Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) standard can be used for representing low-level simulation
and automation workflows for scientific, engineering and manufacturing processes. This paper focuses on
removing the main obstacles that limit a more widespread adoption of the standard and the related technology:
collaboration and data management. Web technologies can provide the necessary complementary features to
the BPMN editing and execution activities: real-time collaboration, accessibility, information and expertise
sharing. The proposed prototype mimics a SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) platform offering public community
support and a private working area which can be shared in real-time with other users. The prototype includes
an execution engine the implementation of which has been tailored to support the data structures required by
scientific and engineering applications. The ideas presented in this paper are supported by three use cases:
a Multi Disciplinary Optimization
case (which is a typical engineering-domain problem involving the design
of complex items), a collaborative decision-making scenario (the negotiation process for generating a lecture
timetable at a university) and Lego-like decomposition of an optimization algorithm (its constituent elements
can be easily re-assembled and shared with our platform).
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