2II96 Seminar AIS, Fall 2013

Lecturers: dr. N. Sidorova, dr. M. De Leoni

Credits: 5 ECTS (=140 hours)

Target audience: Master (CSE,BIS,ES) students interested in process technologies (process modeling,  mining, management, simulation, …) and intending to work on their Master project at the Architecture of Information Systems group.

prior knowledge

1BB30 - Process modelling (recommended)

1BM45 - Process mining (recommended)

2II05 - Business information systems (recommended)

2II15 - Datamining and knowledge systems (recommended)

2II55 - Business process management systems (recommended)

2IV35 - Visualization (recommended)

Timetable:             Semester A, quartile 2

Seminar hours: Thursday, 10:45 – 12:30, AUD  14; Friday, 8:45 – 10:30, Metaforum 09                           

Assignment deadlines:

Assignment 1:  December 4, 2013, 9 a.m.

Assignment 2:  January 15, 2014, 9 a.m.


Assignments are to be executed in the groups of 2 or individually.

The grade for the course is defined as the weighted sum of points received for the two parts of the assignment. The weight of Assignment 1 is 0.2 and the weight of Assignment 2 is 0.8.

Send your assignment to n.sidorova@tue.nl and m.d.leoni@tue.nl with the subject “Seminar AIS, Assignment N” before the deadline.

Being late implies obtaining 0 points for the corresponding part of the assignment.

Assignments:

Assignment 1: write and present a review of a Master thesis of a student graduated at the AIS group (see the full description of the assignment on OASE)

Assignment 2: select a business process (based on a real process) of a company, modeling this process as a Declare model and as a CPN model, drawing the conclusions about the pros and cons of declarative and imperative approaches to modeling (see the full description of the assignment on OASE)

The slides used at the seminar can be found at OASE (oase.tue.nl)

Reading materials: You will find the links to a selection of papers in the table below. Some of the links can only be used when you are at the TU/e campus or by using the library proxy server: http://w3.tue.nl/en/services/library/about/helpdesk/proxy/

Tentative planning

No

Seminar date

Subject

Reading materials

Homework

1

November 13

Working on a Master thesis: do’s and don’ts

Explanation of Assignment 1

(Natalia)

Graduation checklist : follow the links provided there.

Assignment 1 (see OASE)

2

November 14

Declarative versus Imperative Process Modeling Languages

Explanation Assignment 2

(Massimiliano)

Dirk Fahland, Daniel Lübke, Jan Mendling, Hajo Reijers, Barbara Weber, Matthias Weidlich, Stefan Zugal.

Declarative versus Imperative Process Modeling Languages: The Issue of Understandability.

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, volume 29, 2009, pp 353-366

 

Dirk Fahland, Jan Mendling, Hajo A. Reijers, Barbara Weber, Matthias Weidlich, Stefan Zugal, Declarative versus Imperative Process Modeling Languages: The Issue of Maintainability. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, volume 43, 2010, pp 477-488

 

3

November 20

Modeling in Declare

(Natalia)

M. Reichert and B. Weber, “Chapter 12: Constraint-Based Process Models”, in: M. Reichert and B. Weber, Enabling Flexibility in Process-Aware Information Systems, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, Pages 341-374, 2012.

DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-30409-5

Assignment 2 (see OASE)

4

November 21

No seminar

5

November 27

Q&A about Assignments 1 and 2

 

 

6

November 28

Guest lecture

 

 

7

December 4

Presentations of Assignment 1

 

 

8

December 5

No seminar

 

 

9

December 11

No seminar

 

 

10

December 12

No seminar

 

 

11

December 18

Presentations of intermediate results of Assignment 2

 

 

12

December 19

No seminar

 

 

13

January 8

Q&A about Assignment 2

 

 

14

January 9

No seminar

 

 

15

January 15

Final presentations of Assignment 2

 

 

16

January 16

No seminar