TY - GEN A1 - Ladleif, Jan A1 - Weske, Mathias T1 - Which Event Happened First? Deferred Choice on Blockchain Using Oracles T2 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Reihe der Digital Engineering Fakultät N2 - First come, first served: Critical choices between alternative actions are often made based on events external to an organization, and reacting promptly to their occurrence can be a major advantage over the competition. In Business Process Management (BPM), such deferred choices can be expressed in process models, and they are an important aspect of process engines. Blockchain-based process execution approaches are no exception to this, but are severely limited by the inherent properties of the platform: The isolated environment prevents direct access to external entities and data, and the non-continual runtime based entirely on atomic transactions impedes the monitoring and detection of events. In this paper we provide an in-depth examination of the semantics of deferred choice, and transfer them to environments such as the blockchain. We introduce and compare several oracle architectures able to satisfy certain requirements, and show that they can be implemented using state-of-the-art blockchain technology. T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Reihe der Digital Engineering Fakultät - 11 KW - business processes KW - business process management KW - deferred choice KW - workflow patterns KW - blockchain KW - smart contracts KW - oracles KW - formal semantics Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-550681 VL - 4 SP - 1 EP - 16 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ladleif, Jan A1 - Weske, Mathias T1 - Which event happened first? BT - Deferred choice on blockchain using oracles JF - Frontiers in blockchain N2 - First come, first served: Critical choices between alternative actions are often made based on events external to an organization, and reacting promptly to their occurrence can be a major advantage over the competition. In Business Process Management (BPM), such deferred choices can be expressed in process models, and they are an important aspect of process engines. Blockchain-based process execution approaches are no exception to this, but are severely limited by the inherent properties of the platform: The isolated environment prevents direct access to external entities and data, and the non-continual runtime based entirely on atomic transactions impedes the monitoring and detection of events. In this paper we provide an in-depth examination of the semantics of deferred choice, and transfer them to environments such as the blockchain. We introduce and compare several oracle architectures able to satisfy certain requirements, and show that they can be implemented using state-of-the-art blockchain technology. KW - business processes KW - business process management KW - deferred choice KW - workflow patterns KW - blockchain KW - smart contracts KW - oracles KW - formal semantics Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3389/fbloc.2021.758169 SN - 2624-7852 VL - 4 SP - 1 EP - 16 PB - Frontiers in Blockchain CY - Lausanne, Schweiz ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Meyer, Andreas A1 - Weske, Mathias T1 - Weak conformance between process models and synchronized object life cycles N2 - Process models specify behavioral execution constraints between activities as well as between activities and data objects. A data object is characterized by its states and state transitions represented as object life cycle. For process execution, all behavioral execution constraints must be correct. Correctness can be verified via soundness checking which currently only considers control flow information. For data correctness, conformance between a process model and its object life cycles is checked. Current approaches abstract from dependencies between multiple data objects and require fully specified process models although, in real-world process repositories, often underspecified models are found. Coping with these issues, we introduce the concept of synchronized object life cycles and we define a mapping of data constraints of a process model to Petri nets extending an existing mapping. Further, we apply the notion of weak conformance to process models to tell whether each time an activity needs to access a data object in a particular state, it is guaranteed that the data object is in or can reach the expected state. Then, we introduce an algorithm for an integrated verification of control flow correctness and weak data conformance using soundness checking. N2 - Prozessmodelle spezifizieren die Verhaltensabhängigkeiten bezüglich der Ausführung sowohl zwischen Aktivitäten als auch zwischen Aktivitäten und Datenobjekten. Ein Datenobjekt wird über seine Zustände und Zustandsübergänge charakterisiert, welche in einem Objektlebenszyklus abgebildet werden. Für eine fehlerfreie Prozessausführung müssen alle Verhaltensabhängigkeiten korrekt modelliert werden. Eine Standardtechnik zur Korrektheitsüberprüfung ist das Überprüfen auf Soundness. Aktuelle Ansätze berücksichtigen allerdings nur den Kontrollfluss. Datenkorrektheit wird dagegen mittels Conformance zwischen einem Prozessmodel und den verwendeten Objektlebenszyklen überprüft, indem die Existenz eines Zustandsüberganges im Prozessmodell auch im Objektlebenszyklus möglich sein muss. Allerdings abstrahieren aktuelle Ansätze von Abhängigkeiten zwischen mehreren Datenobjekten und erfordern eine vollständige Prozessmodellspezifikation, d.h. das Überspringen oder Zusammenfassen von Zuständen beziehungsweise das Auslagern von Zustandsüberhängen in andere Prozessmodelle ist zum Beispiel nicht vorgesehen. In Prozessmodellsammlungen aus der Praxis sind allerdings oft solche unterspezifizierten Prozessmodelle vorhanden. In diesem Report adressieren wir diese Problemstellungen. Dazu führen wir das Konzept der synchronisierten Objektlebenszyklen ein, erweitern ein Mapping von Prozessmodellen zu Petri Netzen um Datenabhängigkeiten und wenden das Konzept der Weak Conformance auf Prozessmodelle an, um zu entscheiden ob immer wenn eine Aktivität auf ein Datenobjekt zugreift dieses auch im richtigen Zustand vorliegt. Dazu kann das Datenobjekt bereits in diesem Zustand sein oder aber diesen über eine beliebige Anzahl von Zustandsübergängen erreichen. Basierend auf diesen Konzepten führen wir auch einen Algorithmus ein, welcher ein integriertes Überprüfen von Kontrollfluss- und Datenflusskorrektheit unter Nutzung von Soundness-Überprüfungen ermöglicht. T3 - Technische Berichte des Hasso-Plattner-Instituts für Digital Engineering an der Universität Potsdam - 91 KW - business process management KW - data flow correctness KW - object life cycle synchronization KW - Petri net mapping KW - conformance checking KW - Geschäftsprozessmanagement KW - Datenflusskorrektheit KW - Objektlebenszyklus-Synchronisation KW - Petri net Mapping KW - Conformance Überprüfung Y1 - 2014 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-71722 SN - 978-3-86956-303-9 SN - 1613-5652 SN - 2191-1665 IS - 91 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Awad, Ahmed Mahmoud Hany Aly A1 - Weidlich, Matthias A1 - Weske, Mathias T1 - Visually specifying compliance rules and explaining their violations for business processes JF - Journal of visual languages and computing N2 - A business process is a set of steps designed to be executed in a certain order to achieve a business value. Such processes are often driven by and documented using process models. Nowadays, process models are also applied to drive process execution. Thus, correctness of business process models is a must. Much of the work has been devoted to check general, domain-independent correctness criteria, such as soundness. However, business processes must also adhere to and show compliance with various regulations and constraints, the so-called compliance requirements. These are domain-dependent requirements. In many situations, verifying compliance on a model level is of great value, since violations can be resolved in an early stage prior to execution. However, this calls for using formal verification techniques, e.g., model checking, that are too complex for business experts to apply. In this paper, we utilize a visual language. BPMN-Q to express compliance requirements visually in a way similar to that used by business experts to build process models. Still, using a pattern based approach, each BPMN-Qgraph has a formal temporal logic expression in computational tree logic (CTL). Moreover, the user is able to express constraints, i.e., compliance rules, regarding control flow and data flow aspects. In order to provide valuable feedback to a user in case of violations, we depend on temporal logic querying approaches as well as BPMN-Q to visually highlight paths in a process model whose execution causes violations. KW - Business process modeling KW - Compliance checking KW - Visual modeling KW - Anti-patterns Y1 - 2011 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvlc.2010.11.002 SN - 1045-926X VL - 22 IS - 1 SP - 30 EP - 55 PB - Elsevier CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Yousfi, Alaaeddine A1 - Hewelt, Marcin A1 - Bauer, Christine A1 - Weske, Mathias T1 - Toward uBPMN-Based patterns for modeling ubiquitous business processes JF - IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics N2 - Ubiquitous business processes are the new generation of processes that pervade the physical space and interact with their environments using a minimum of human involvement. Although they are now widely deployed in the industry, their deployment is still ad hoc . They are implemented after an arbitrary modeling phase or no modeling phase at all. The absence of a solid modeling phase backing up the implementation generates many loopholes that are stressed in the literature. Here, we tackle the issue of modeling ubiquitous business processes. We propose patterns to represent the recent ubiquitous computing features. These patterns are the outcome of an analysis we conducted in the field of human-computer interaction to examine how the features are actually deployed. The patterns' understandability, ease-of-use, usefulness, and completeness are examined via a user experiment. The results indicate that these four indexes are on the positive track. Hence, the patterns may be the backbone of ubiquitous business process modeling in industrial applications. KW - Ubiquitous business process KW - ubiquitous business process model and notation (uBPMN) KW - ubiquitous business process modeling KW - ubiquitous computing (ubicomp) Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1109/TII.2017.2777847 SN - 1551-3203 SN - 1941-0050 VL - 14 IS - 8 SP - 3358 EP - 3367 PB - Inst. of Electr. and Electronics Engineers CY - Piscataway ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Polyvyanyy, Artem A1 - Smirnov, Sergey A1 - Weske, Mathias T1 - The triconnected abstraction of process models N2 - Contents: Artem Polyvanny, Sergey Smirnow, and Mathias Weske The Triconnected Abstraction of Process Models 1 Introduction 2 Business Process Model Abstraction 3 Preliminaries 4 Triconnected Decomposition 4.1 Basic Approach for Process Component Discovery 4.2 SPQR-Tree Decomposition 4.3 SPQR-Tree Fragments in the Context of Process Models 5 Triconnected Abstraction 5.1 Abstraction Rules 5.2 Abstraction Algorithm 6 Related Work and Conclusions T3 - Technische Berichte des Hasso-Plattner-Instituts für Digital Engineering an der Universität Potsdam - 26 KW - Hasso-Plattner-Institut KW - Hasso-Plattner-Institute Y1 - 2008 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-32847 SN - 978-3-940793-65-2 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Smirnov, Sergey A1 - Zamani Farahani, Armin A1 - Weske, Mathias T1 - State propagation in abstracted business processes N2 - Business process models are abstractions of concrete operational procedures that occur in the daily business of organizations. To cope with the complexity of these models, business process model abstraction has been introduced recently. Its goal is to derive from a detailed process model several abstract models that provide a high-level understanding of the process. While techniques for constructing abstract models are reported in the literature, little is known about the relationships between process instances and abstract models. In this paper we show how the state of an abstract activity can be calculated from the states of related, detailed process activities as they happen. The approach uses activity state propagation. With state uniqueness and state transition correctness we introduce formal properties that improve the understanding of state propagation. Algorithms to check these properties are devised. Finally, we use behavioral profiles to identify and classify behavioral inconsistencies in abstract process models that might occur, once activity state propagation is used. N2 - Geschäftsprozessmodelle sind Abstraktionen konkreter operationaler Vorgänge, die im täglichen Geschäftsablauf von Organisationen auftreten. Um die Komplexität solcher Modelle zu bewältigen, wurde die Geschäftsprozessmodelabstraktion eingeführt. Ziel ist dabei, von einem detaillierten Prozessmodel mehrere abstrakte Modelle abzuleiten, um so auf einer höheren Abstraktionsstufe ein Verständnis für den Prozess zu bekommen. Während viel in der Literatur über Techniken zur Konstruktion abstrakter Modelle berichtet wurde, ist wenig über die Beziehungen zwischen Prozessinstanzen und abstrakten Modellen bekannt. In dieser Arbeit zeigen wir, wie der Zustand einer abstrakten Aktivität aus den Zuständen ihrer entsprechenden detaillierten Prozessaktivitäten zur Laufzeit berechnet werden kann. Der Ansatz basiert dabei auf der Übertragung des Aktivitätszustands. Mit der Zustandseindeutigkeit und der Korrektheit der Zustandstransitionen führen wir formale Kriterien ein, die das Verständnis der Zustandsübertragung erleichtern. Zudem sind Algorithmen entwickelt worden, um diese Kriterien zu überprüfen. Außerdem nutzen wir Verhaltensprofile um Inkonsistenzen im Verhalten abstrakter Prozessmodelle zu identifizieren und zu klassifizieren, die auftreten können, wenn die Aktivitätszustände gemäß den Regeln abgebildet werden. T3 - Technische Berichte des Hasso-Plattner-Instituts für Digital Engineering an der Universität Potsdam - 47 KW - Abstraktion von Geschäftsprozessmodellen KW - Prozessinstanz KW - Propagation von Aktivitätsinstanzzuständen KW - business process model abstraction KW - process instance KW - activity instance state propagation Y1 - 2011 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-51480 SN - 978-3-86956-130-1 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER - TY - INPR A1 - Weske, Mathias A1 - Rinderle-Ma, Stefanie A1 - Toumani, Farouk A1 - Wolf, Karsten T1 - Special section on BPM 2011 conference. - Special Issue T2 - Information systems Y1 - 2013 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.is.2013.01.003 SN - 0306-4379 VL - 38 IS - 4 SP - 545 EP - 546 PB - Elsevier CY - Oxford ER - TY - INPR A1 - Weske, Mathias A1 - Yang, Jian A1 - Maglio, Paul P. T1 - Special issue service oriented computing (ICSOC) guest editors' introduction T2 - International journal of cooperative information systems Y1 - 2012 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218843012020017 SN - 0218-8430 VL - 21 IS - 1 SP - 1 EP - 2 PB - World Scientific CY - Singapore ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Nikaj, Adriatik A1 - Weske, Mathias A1 - Mendling, Jan T1 - Semi-automatic derivation of RESTful choreographies from business process choreographies JF - Software and systems modeling N2 - Enterprises reach out for collaborations with other organizations in order to offer complex products and services to the market. Such collaboration and coordination between different organizations, for a good share, is facilitated by information technology. The BPMN process choreography is a modeling language for specifying the exchange of information and services between different organizations at the business level. Recently, there is a surging use of the REST architectural style for the provisioning of services on the web, but few systematic engineering approach to design their collaboration. In this paper, we address this gap in a comprehensive way by defining a semi-automatic method for the derivation of RESTful choreographies from process choreographies. The method is based on natural language analysis techniques to derive interactions from the textual information in process choreographies. The proposed method is evaluated in terms of effectiveness resulting in the intervention of a web engineer in only about 10% of all generated RESTful interactions. KW - Business process choreographies KW - RESTful choreographies KW - Natural language analysis Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10270-017-0653-2 SN - 1619-1366 SN - 1619-1374 VL - 18 IS - 2 SP - 1195 EP - 1208 PB - Springer CY - Heidelberg ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Combi, Carlo A1 - Oliboni, Barbara A1 - Weske, Mathias A1 - Zerbato, Francesca T1 - Seamless conceptual modeling of processes with transactional and analytical data JF - Data & knowledge engineering N2 - In the field of Business Process Management (BPM), modeling business processes and related data is a critical issue since process activities need to manage data stored in databases. The connection between processes and data is usually handled at the implementation level, even if modeling both processes and data at the conceptual level should help designers in improving business process models and identifying requirements for implementation. Especially in data -and decision-intensive contexts, business process activities need to access data stored both in databases and data warehouses. In this paper, we complete our approach for defining a novel conceptual view that bridges process activities and data. The proposed approach allows the designer to model the connection between business processes and database models and define the operations to perform, providing interesting insights on the overall connected perspective and hints for identifying activities that are crucial for decision support. KW - Conceptual modeling KW - Business process modeling KW - BPMN KW - Data modeling KW - Data warehouse KW - Decision support Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.datak.2021.101895 SN - 0169-023X SN - 1872-6933 VL - 134 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Rogge-Solti, Andreas A1 - Mans, Ronny S. A1 - van der Aalst, Wil M. P. A1 - Weske, Mathias T1 - Repairing event logs using stochastic process models N2 - Companies strive to improve their business processes in order to remain competitive. Process mining aims to infer meaningful insights from process-related data and attracted the attention of practitioners, tool-vendors, and researchers in recent years. Traditionally, event logs are assumed to describe the as-is situation. But this is not necessarily the case in environments where logging may be compromised due to manual logging. For example, hospital staff may need to manually enter information regarding the patient’s treatment. As a result, events or timestamps may be missing or incorrect. In this paper, we make use of process knowledge captured in process models, and provide a method to repair missing events in the logs. This way, we facilitate analysis of incomplete logs. We realize the repair by combining stochastic Petri nets, alignments, and Bayesian networks. We evaluate the results using both synthetic data and real event data from a Dutch hospital. N2 - Unternehmen optimieren ihre Geschäftsprozesse laufend um im kompetitiven Umfeld zu bestehen. Das Ziel von Process Mining ist es, bedeutende Erkenntnisse aus prozessrelevanten Daten zu extrahieren. In den letzten Jahren sorgte Process Mining bei Experten, Werkzeugherstellern und Forschern zunehmend für Aufsehen. Traditionell wird dabei angenommen, dass Ereignisprotokolle die tatsächliche Ist-Situation widerspiegeln. Dies ist jedoch nicht unbedingt der Fall, wenn prozessrelevante Ereignisse manuell erfasst werden. Ein Beispiel hierfür findet sich im Krankenhaus, in dem das Personal Behandlungen meist manuell dokumentiert. Vergessene oder fehlerhafte Einträge in Ereignisprotokollen sind in solchen Fällen nicht auszuschließen. In diesem technischen Bericht wird eine Methode vorgestellt, die das Wissen aus Prozessmodellen und historischen Daten nutzt um fehlende Einträge in Ereignisprotokollen zu reparieren. Somit wird die Analyse unvollständiger Ereignisprotokolle erleichtert. Die Reparatur erfolgt mit einer Kombination aus stochastischen Petri Netzen, Alignments und Bayes'schen Netzen. Die Ergebnisse werden mit synthetischen Daten und echten Daten eines holländischen Krankenhauses evaluiert. T3 - Technische Berichte des Hasso-Plattner-Instituts für Digital Engineering an der Universität Potsdam - 78 KW - Process Mining KW - fehlende Daten KW - stochastische Petri Netze KW - Bayes'sche Netze KW - process mining KW - missing data KW - stochastic Petri nets KW - Bayesian networks Y1 - 2013 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-66797 SN - 978-3-86956-258-2 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Polyvyanyy, Artem A1 - Smirnov, Sergey A1 - Weske, Mathias T1 - Reducing the complexity of large EPCs N2 - Inhalt: 1 Introduction 2 Motivation and Goal 3 Fundamentals 4 Elementary Abstractions 5 Real World Example 6 Conclusions T3 - Technische Berichte des Hasso-Plattner-Instituts für Digital Engineering an der Universität Potsdam - 22 Y1 - 2008 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-32959 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kunze, Matthias A1 - Weidlich, Matthias A1 - Weske, Mathias T1 - Querying process models by behavior inclusion JF - Software and systems modeling N2 - Business processes are vital to managing organizations as they sustain a company's competitiveness. Consequently, these organizations maintain collections of hundreds or thousands of process models for streamlining working procedures and facilitating process implementation. Yet, the management of large process model collections requires effective searching capabilities. Recent research focused on similarity search of process models, but querying process models is still a largely open topic. This article presents an approach to querying process models that takes a process example as input and discovers all models that allow replaying the behavior of the query. To this end, we provide a notion of behavioral inclusion that is based on trace semantics and abstraction. Additional to deciding a match, a closeness score is provided that describes how well the behavior of the query is represented in the model and can be used for ranking. The article introduces the formal foundations of the approach and shows how they are applied to querying large process model collections. An experimental evaluation has been conducted that confirms the suitability of the solution as well as its applicability and scalability in practice. KW - Process model search KW - Behavioral querying KW - Trace inclusion KW - Process model repositories Y1 - 2015 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10270-013-0389-6 SN - 1619-1366 SN - 1619-1374 VL - 14 IS - 3 SP - 1105 EP - 1125 PB - Springer CY - Heidelberg ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Weidlich, Matthias A1 - Mendling, Jan A1 - Weske, Mathias T1 - Propagating changes between aligned process models JF - The journal of systems and software N2 - There is a wide variety of drivers for business process modelling initiatives, reaching from organisational redesign to the development of information systems. Consequently, a common business process is often captured in multiple models that overlap in content due to serving different purposes. Business process management aims at flexible adaptation to changing business needs. Hence, changes of business processes occur frequently and have to be incorporated in the respective process models. Once a process model is changed, related process models have to be updated accordingly, despite the fact that those process models may only be loosely coupled. In this article, we introduce an approach that supports change propagation between related process models. Given a change in one process model, we leverage the behavioural abstraction of behavioural profiles for corresponding activities in order to determine a change region in another model. Our approach is able to cope with changes in pairs of models that are not related by hierarchical refinement and show behavioural inconsistencies. We evaluate the applicability of our approach with two real-world process model collections. To this end, we either deduce change operations from different model revisions or rely on synthetic change operations. KW - Change propagation KW - Model synchronisation KW - Behavioural analysis KW - Process model alignment Y1 - 2012 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2012.02.044 SN - 0164-1212 VL - 85 IS - 8 SP - 1885 EP - 1898 PB - Elsevier CY - New York ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bano, Dorina A1 - Michael, Judith A1 - Rumpe, Bernhard A1 - Varga, Simon A1 - Weske, Mathias T1 - Process-aware digital twin cockpit synthesis from event logs JF - Journal of computer languages N2 - The engineering of digital twins and their user interaction parts with explicated processes, namely processaware digital twin cockpits (PADTCs), is challenging due to the complexity of the systems and the need for information from different disciplines within the engineering process. Therefore, it is interesting to investigate how to facilitate their engineering by using already existing data, namely event logs, and reducing the number of manual steps for their engineering. Current research lacks systematic, automated approaches to derive process-aware digital twin cockpits even though some helpful techniques already exist in the areas of process mining and software engineering. Within this paper, we present a low-code development approach that reduces the amount of hand-written code needed and uses process mining techniques to derive PADTCs. We describe what models could be derived from event log data, which generative steps are needed for the engineering of PADTCs, and how process mining could be incorporated into the resulting application. This process is evaluated using the MIMIC III dataset for the creation of a PADTC prototype for an automated hospital transportation system. This approach can be used for early prototyping of PADTCs as it needs no hand-written code in the first place, but it still allows for the iterative evolvement of the application. This empowers domain experts to create their PADTC prototypes. KW - process-aware digital twin cockpit KW - low-code development approaches KW - sensor data KW - event log KW - process mining KW - process-awareness Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cola.2022.101121 SN - 2590-1184 SN - 2665-9182 VL - 70 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam [u.a.] ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Weidlich, Matthias A1 - Polyvyanyy, Artem A1 - Desai, Nirmit A1 - Mendling, Jan A1 - Weske, Mathias T1 - Process compliance analysis based on behavioural profiles JF - Information systems N2 - Process compliance measurement is getting increasing attention in companies due to stricter legal requirements and market pressure for operational excellence. In order to judge on compliance of the business processing, the degree of behavioural deviation of a case, i.e., an observed execution sequence, is quantified with respect to a process model (referred to as fitness, or recall). Recently, different compliance measures have been proposed. Still, nearly all of them are grounded on state-based techniques and the trace equivalence criterion, in particular. As a consequence, these approaches have to deal with the state explosion problem. In this paper, we argue that a behavioural abstraction may be leveraged to measure the compliance of a process log - a collection of cases. To this end, we utilise causal behavioural profiles that capture the behavioural characteristics of process models and cases, and can be computed efficiently. We propose different compliance measures based on these profiles, discuss the impact of noise in process logs on our measures, and show how diagnostic information on non-compliance is derived. As a validation, we report on findings of applying our approach in a case study with an international service provider. KW - Process compliance KW - Compliance measurement KW - Log conformance KW - Root cause analysis Y1 - 2011 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.is.2011.04.002 SN - 0306-4379 VL - 36 IS - 7 SP - 1009 EP - 1025 PB - Elsevier CY - Oxford ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Meinel, Christoph A1 - Döllner, Jürgen Roland Friedrich A1 - Weske, Mathias A1 - Polze, Andreas A1 - Hirschfeld, Robert A1 - Naumann, Felix A1 - Giese, Holger A1 - Baudisch, Patrick A1 - Friedrich, Tobias A1 - Böttinger, Erwin A1 - Lippert, Christoph A1 - Dörr, Christian A1 - Lehmann, Anja A1 - Renard, Bernhard A1 - Rabl, Tilmann A1 - Uebernickel, Falk A1 - Arnrich, Bert A1 - Hölzle, Katharina T1 - Proceedings of the HPI Research School on Service-oriented Systems Engineering 2020 Fall Retreat N2 - Design and Implementation of service-oriented architectures imposes a huge number of research questions from the fields of software engineering, system analysis and modeling, adaptability, and application integration. Component orientation and web services are two approaches for design and realization of complex web-based system. Both approaches allow for dynamic application adaptation as well as integration of enterprise application. Service-Oriented Systems Engineering represents a symbiosis of best practices in object-orientation, component-based development, distributed computing, and business process management. It provides integration of business and IT concerns. The annual Ph.D. Retreat of the Research School provides each member the opportunity to present his/her current state of their research and to give an outline of a prospective Ph.D. thesis. Due to the interdisciplinary structure of the research school, this technical report covers a wide range of topics. These include but are not limited to: Human Computer Interaction and Computer Vision as Service; Service-oriented Geovisualization Systems; Algorithm Engineering for Service-oriented Systems; Modeling and Verification of Self-adaptive Service-oriented Systems; Tools and Methods for Software Engineering in Service-oriented Systems; Security Engineering of Service-based IT Systems; Service-oriented Information Systems; Evolutionary Transition of Enterprise Applications to Service Orientation; Operating System Abstractions for Service-oriented Computing; and Services Specification, Composition, and Enactment. N2 - Der Entwurf und die Realisierung dienstbasierender Architekturen wirft eine Vielzahl von Forschungsfragestellungen aus den Gebieten der Softwaretechnik, der Systemmodellierung und -analyse, sowie der Adaptierbarkeit und Integration von Applikationen auf. Komponentenorientierung und WebServices sind zwei Ansätze für den effizienten Entwurf und die Realisierung komplexer Web-basierender Systeme. Sie ermöglichen die Reaktion auf wechselnde Anforderungen ebenso, wie die Integration großer komplexer Softwaresysteme. "Service-Oriented Systems Engineering" repräsentiert die Symbiose bewährter Praktiken aus den Gebieten der Objektorientierung, der Komponentenprogrammierung, des verteilten Rechnen sowie der Geschäftsprozesse und berücksichtigt auch die Integration von Geschäftsanliegen und Informationstechnologien. Die Klausurtagung des Forschungskollegs "Service-oriented Systems Engineering" findet einmal jährlich statt und bietet allen Kollegiaten die Möglichkeit den Stand ihrer aktuellen Forschung darzulegen. Bedingt durch die Querschnittstruktur des Kollegs deckt dieser Bericht ein weites Spektrum aktueller Forschungsthemen ab. Dazu zählen unter anderem Human Computer Interaction and Computer Vision as Service; Service-oriented Geovisualization Systems; Algorithm Engineering for Service-oriented Systems; Modeling and Verification of Self-adaptive Service-oriented Systems; Tools and Methods for Software Engineering in Service-oriented Systems; Security Engineering of Service-based IT Systems; Service-oriented Information Systems; Evolutionary Transition of Enterprise Applications to Service Orientation; Operating System Abstractions for Service-oriented Computing; sowie Services Specification, Composition, and Enactment. T3 - Technische Berichte des Hasso-Plattner-Instituts für Digital Engineering an der Universität Potsdam - 138 KW - Hasso Plattner Institute KW - research school KW - Ph.D. retreat KW - service-oriented systems engineering KW - Hasso-Plattner-Institut KW - Forschungskolleg KW - Klausurtagung KW - Service-oriented Systems Engineering Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-504132 SN - 978-3-86956-513-2 SN - 1613-5652 SN - 2191-1665 IS - 138 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Meinel, Christoph A1 - Plattner, Hasso A1 - Döllner, Jürgen Roland Friedrich A1 - Weske, Mathias A1 - Polze, Andreas A1 - Hirschfeld, Robert A1 - Naumann, Felix A1 - Giese, Holger A1 - Baudisch, Patrick T1 - Proceedings of the 7th Ph.D. Retreat of the HPI Research School on Service-oriented Systems Engineering N2 - Design and Implementation of service-oriented architectures imposes a huge number of research questions from the fields of software engineering, system analysis and modeling, adaptability, and application integration. Component orientation and web services are two approaches for design and realization of complex web-based system. Both approaches allow for dynamic application adaptation as well as integration of enterprise application. Commonly used technologies, such as J2EE and .NET, form de facto standards for the realization of complex distributed systems. Evolution of component systems has lead to web services and service-based architectures. This has been manifested in a multitude of industry standards and initiatives such as XML, WSDL UDDI, SOAP, etc. All these achievements lead to a new and promising paradigm in IT systems engineering which proposes to design complex software solutions as collaboration of contractually defined software services. Service-Oriented Systems Engineering represents a symbiosis of best practices in object-orientation, component-based development, distributed computing, and business process management. It provides integration of business and IT concerns. The annual Ph.D. Retreat of the Research School provides each member the opportunity to present his/her current state of their research and to give an outline of a prospective Ph.D. thesis. Due to the interdisciplinary structure of the Research Scholl, this technical report covers a wide range of research topics. These include but are not limited to: Self-Adaptive Service-Oriented Systems, Operating System Support for Service-Oriented Systems, Architecture and Modeling of Service-Oriented Systems, Adaptive Process Management, Services Composition and Workflow Planning, Security Engineering of Service-Based IT Systems, Quantitative Analysis and Optimization of Service-Oriented Systems, Service-Oriented Systems in 3D Computer Graphics sowie Service-Oriented Geoinformatics. N2 - Der Entwurf und die Realisierung dienstbasierender Architekturen wirft eine Vielzahl von Forschungsfragestellungen aus den Gebieten der Softwaretechnik, der Systemmodellierung und -analyse, sowie der Adaptierbarkeit und Integration von Applikationen auf. Komponentenorientierung und WebServices sind zwei Ansätze für den effizienten Entwurf und die Realisierung komplexer Web-basierender Systeme. Sie ermöglichen die Reaktion auf wechselnde Anforderungen ebenso, wie die Integration großer komplexer Softwaresysteme. Heute übliche Technologien, wie J2EE und .NET, sind de facto Standards für die Entwicklung großer verteilter Systeme. Die Evolution solcher Komponentensysteme führt über WebServices zu dienstbasierenden Architekturen. Dies manifestiert sich in einer Vielzahl von Industriestandards und Initiativen wie XML, WSDL, UDDI, SOAP. All diese Schritte führen letztlich zu einem neuen, vielversprechenden Paradigma für IT Systeme, nach dem komplexe Softwarelösungen durch die Integration vertraglich vereinbarter Software-Dienste aufgebaut werden sollen. "Service-Oriented Systems Engineering" repräsentiert die Symbiose bewährter Praktiken aus den Gebieten der Objektorientierung, der Komponentenprogrammierung, des verteilten Rechnen sowie der Geschäftsprozesse und berücksichtigt auch die Integration von Geschäftsanliegen und Informationstechnologien. Die Klausurtagung des Forschungskollegs "Service-oriented Systems Engineering" findet einmal jährlich statt und bietet allen Kollegiaten die Möglichkeit den Stand ihrer aktuellen Forschung darzulegen. Bedingt durch die Querschnittstruktur des Kollegs deckt dieser Bericht ein große Bandbreite aktueller Forschungsthemen ab. Dazu zählen unter anderem Self-Adaptive Service-Oriented Systems, Operating System Support for Service-Oriented Systems, Architecture and Modeling of Service-Oriented Systems, Adaptive Process Management, Services Composition and Workflow Planning, Security Engineering of Service-Based IT Systems, Quantitative Analysis and Optimization of Service-Oriented Systems, Service-Oriented Systems in 3D Computer Graphics sowie Service-Oriented Geoinformatics. T3 - Technische Berichte des Hasso-Plattner-Instituts für Digital Engineering an der Universität Potsdam - 83 KW - Hasso-Plattner-Institut KW - Forschungskolleg KW - Klausurtagung KW - Service-oriented Systems Engineering KW - Hasso Plattner Institute KW - Research School KW - Ph.D. Retreat KW - Service-oriented Systems Engineering Y1 - 2014 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-63490 SN - 978-3-86956-273-5 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER - TY - GEN A1 - Weske, Mathias A1 - Sadiq, Shazia A1 - Soffer, Pnina A1 - Voelzer, Hagen T1 - Preface to BPM 2014 T2 - Information systems Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.is.2015.09.006 SN - 0306-4379 SN - 1873-6076 VL - 56 SP - 233 EP - 234 PB - Elsevier CY - Oxford ER -