Courses – Fakultet tehničkih nauka u Novom Sadu

Subject: Business Process Management (17.E2521)

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	Measurement-Information Technologies and Control Engineering (Godina: 1, Winter)
Master Academic Studies	Software Engineering and Information Technologies (Godina: 1, Winter)

General information:

Category	Scientific-professional
Scientific or art field	Applied Computer Science and Informatics
Interdisciplinary	No
ECTS	6

Educational goal:

Understanding the concepts of business processes. management. Acquiring knowledge and skills in the domain of software support for business process management, methods and techniques for modeling workflows, business processes and process choreographies. Training students for design of complex software solutions based on the development of detailed formal process models and business process management systems.

Educational outcome:

Upon successful completion of the course students are capable of: 1 Understanding and applying the concepts of business process management in software systems design 2. Specifying formal models of business processes in one of standard modeling notation (BPMN) 3. Implementing specified business process models in software systems based on BPM process engines 4. Analyzing, simulating and improving the business processes.

Course content:

The notion of workflow and business processes. Petri-nets, graphical representation and mathematical model. Extensions of Petri-nets. Modeling business processes. Triggers. Managing resources. Workflow nalysis and verification. Workflow patterns. Workflow simulation and testing. Business process management systems. Tools for monitoring and administration of business processes. Standardization in workflow systems.

Teaching methods:

Lectures; Computer practice. Consultations. The examination is oral. The final grade is formed on the bases of success at laboratory practice and oral examination.

Literature:

Authors	Title	Year	Publisher	Language
Jakob Freund, Bernd Rücker	Real-Life BPMN: With introductions to CMMN and DMN	2016	Camunda	English
Weske, M.	Business Process Management, Concepts, Languages, Architectures	2012	Springer-Verlag, Berlin	English
W.M.P. van der Aalst, C. Stahl	Modeling Business Processes: A Petri Net-Oriented Approach	2011	MIT Press	English
W.M.P. van der Aalst	Process Mining: Discovery, Conformance and Enhancement of Business Processes	2011	Springer	English
Zarić, M.	Sistemi za upravljanje poslovnim procesima	2018	Fakultet tehničkih nauka, Novi Sad	Serbian language