Andrea Marrella - Teaching - Course on Process and Service Modeling and Analysis 2015-2016

Process and Service Modeling and Analysis

Master in Computer Engineering -- SAPIENZA - Università di Roma

Instructors: Prof. Giuseppe De Giacomo and Prof. Massimo Mecella

Teaching Assistant: Dott. Andrea Marrella

A.A. 2016/2017

Labs Description

The labs will provide a practical feeling of the main aspects tackled during the course. Specifically, the labs will discuss exercises and concrete projects on business process modeling, automation and execution. The projects will be presented, deployed and simulated through a real BPM engine, called "Bizagi Suite". To setup and install the Bizagi Suite you have to download separately Bizagi Modeler, that is a BPMN graphical editor for business processes, and Bizagi Studio, required to automate and simulate the execution of a business process. You can download the tools at this link.
To install the tools, please check the instructions reported at the following links: Bizagi Modeler and Bizagi Studio. Notice that to use Bizagi Modeler and Bizagi Studio is just required to create a personal account on the Bizagi web site. Finally, the tools are only available to be installed on a 64-bit based Windows environment. However, you can instead use a virtual machine with Windows OS on your MAC/Linux platform to run your projects.

Main Course	Main course web page, with teaching material, course program and lectures log.
Office Hours	By appointment, in Room B213 (second floor), Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica, Automatica e Gestionale (DIAG), Via Ariosto 25, Roma. To have an appointment, it is required to send an e-mail to the instructor.
E-mail Address	marrella <at> diag <dot> uniroma1 <dot> it

Schedule of Exercises and Practical Lectures

DATE AND TIME	TOPICS TACKLED
20/03/2017 15:00-18:00	1 - Introduction 2 - Basic BPMN Basic concepts Architecture of a Process Management System Introduction to the Bizagi Suite Flow objects and sequence flow Behaviour of gateways Processes investigated: Loan Request Purchase Order Generation Travel Plan Quotation
22/03/2017 17:00-19:00	3 - Resource Perspective and Events in BPMN Pools, swimlanes and message flows Start, intermediate and end events Event-based gateways Processes investigated: Shipment of a Hardware Retailer Order Management Publishing a Book Reimbursement Procedure
27/03/2017 15:00-18:00	4 - Advanced Concepts in BPMN Data artifacts Embedded and independent sub-processes Multi-instance and loop activities Error events Non-interrupting boundary events Processes investigated: Exam Correction Procedure Pizza Delivery Order Fulfillment and Procurement 5 - Turning BPMN Process Models Executable Understanding Business Process Automation. A methodology to turn business-oriented process models into executable ones. Classroom Exercises Process investigated: Warehouse Order Fulfillment Process
29/03/2017 17:00-19:00	6 - Process Automation (practical session - no slides) Understanding Process Automation in Bizagi Studio. Process Modeling in Bizagi Modeler. Data modeling in Bizagi Studio. Definition of forms and business rules in Bizagi Studio. Management of the Resource Perspective. Execution of the process investigated through the workbench of Bizagi Studio. Process investigated: download Homework (not graded - to be completed at home): My First Process in Bizagi. My Second Process in Bizagi.
17/05/2016 17:00-19:00	7 - Declarative Process Modeling and Mining Imperative vs Declarative process modelling. Declarative process modeling with Declare. Instantiation of declarative constraints through Declare templates. Declarative Process Mining in ProM. Event Logs and Models investigated: Sample Event Logs and Declare Models Tool used: Declare Modeling Tool ProM Tool for process mining
24/05/2017 17:00-19:00	8 - Connecting processes to external data sources (practical session - no slides) Data Replication in Bizagi Studio. Data Virtualization in Bizagi Studio. Process investigated (and Data Model): download

Business Process Models Investigated

Loan Request - download
Purchase Order Generation - download
Travel Plan Quotation - download
Shipment of a Hardware Retailer - download
Order Management - download
Publishing a Book - download
Reimbursement Procedure - download
Exam Correction Procedure - download
Pizza Delivery - download
Order Fulfillment and Procurement - download
Warehouse Order Fulfillment - download
Vacation Leave Request - download

Additional Teaching Material

BPMN 2.0 Poster - view
BPMN 2.0 Standard - view
User Manual of Bizagi Studio - view
My First Process in Bizagi Studio - view
My Second Process in Bizagi Studio - view
Declare Modeling Tool - view
ProM Tool for process mining - view
Sample Event Logs and Declare model - download