Courses – Fakultet tehničkih nauka u Novom Sadu

Subject: Business Process Modeling (17.E2518)

Native organizations units: Sub-department for Applied Computer Science and Informatics

Type of studies	Title
Master Academic Studies	Computing and Control Engineering (Godina: 1, Winter)
Master Academic Studies	Computing and Control Engineering (Godina: 1, Winter)
Master Academic Studies	Information Engineering (Godina: 1, Winter)
Master Academic Studies	Information and Analytics Engineering (Godina: 1, Winter)

General information:

Category	Academic-general educative
Scientific or art field	Applied Computer Science and Informatics
Interdisciplinary	No
ECTS	6

Educational goal:

Students gain advanced knowledge in the field of software-based business process modeling and service-based software architectures. Adopting knowledge about languages and techniques for business process modeling and implementation of service-based software architectures.

Educational outcome:

The acquired knowledge is used in practice, particularly in projects including system specification and development. It is applicable in all problem domains in which it is necessary to create business process models, specify corresponding architectures of complex software systems or optimize business processes.

Course content:

The notion, role and characteristics of business processes in organizational systems. Business rules and business rule models. Basic motives and principles of business process modeling. Business process modeling languages and techniques. Petri nets. Business process modeling and execution languages BPMN and BPEL. Pi-calculus. Service-based software architectures. Concepts of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). SOA languages. Transformations of BPMN specifications to BPEL specifications and service orchestration. Microservice Architecture. Software environments for business process modeling and specification and implementation of service-based software architectures. Analysis and re-engineering of business processes. Process mining.

Teaching methods:

Teaching is performed through lectures, exercises (in a computer classroom) and consultations. Through the whole teaching process, intensive communication, problem oriented reasoning, independent study work and active participation of students are constantly fostered. The prerequisite for taking the final exam is to complete the pre-exam assignments by earning at least 30 points.

Literature:

Authors	Title	Year	Publisher	Language
Pant Kapil, Juric Matjaz	Business Process Driven SOA using BPMN and BPEL: From Business Process Modeling to Orchestration and Service Oriented Architecture	2008	Packt Publishing Ltd.	English
Newman Sam	Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems	2015	OReilly Media	English
Reisig Wolfgang, Rozenberg Grzegorz (Eds.)	Lectures on Petri Nets I: Basic Models — Advances in Petri Nets	1998	Springer	English
Silver Bruce	BPMN Method and Style, 2nd Edition, with BPMN Implementer s Guide: A structured approach for business process modeling and implementation using BPMN 2.0	2011	Cody-Cassidy Press	English
Sharp Alec, McDermott Patrick	Workflow Modeling: Tools for Process Improvement and Application Development, 2nd Edition	2008	Artech House, Inc.	English
Udayakumar Kathiravan	Oracle SOA Infrastructure Implementation Certification Handbook (1Z0-451)	2012	Packt Publishing Ltd.	English
Van der Aalst Wil	Process Mining: Discovery, Conformance and Enhancement of Business Processes	2011	Springer	English
Erl, T.	Service-Oriented Architecture	2005	Prentice Hall	English
Milner, R.	Communicating and Mobile Systems: the Pi-Calculus	2007	Cambridge University Press, New York	English