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Last name: BARBA RODRÍGUEZ
First name: Irene
Un proceso de negocio (business process, BP) se puede definir como un conjunto de actividades que se ejecutan de forma coordinada en un entorno organizativo y técnico, y que conjuntamente alcanzan un objetivo de negocio. Hoy en día, existe un interés crec
A business process (BP) consists of a set of activities which are performed in coordination in an organizational and technical environment and which jointly realize a business goal. In such context, BP management (BPM) can be seen as supporting BPs using methods, techniques, and software in order to design, enact, control, and analyze...
Over the last decade, the efficient and flexible management of business processes has become one of the most critical success aspects. Furthermore, there exists a growing interest in the application of Artificial Intelligence Planning and Scheduling techniques to automate the production and execution of models of organization. However, from our...
Usually, business process models are manually achieved by business analysts and most of current modelling languages are of imperative nature. As a consequence, non-optimized or faulty models can be obtained. This work proposes a planning based approach to give business analysts assistance for the process models generation. This approach entails...
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Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is a discipline that is increasingly growing hand in hand with Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning enabling the so-called cognitive automation. In such context, the existing RPA platforms that include AI-based solutions clas sify their components, i.e. constituting part of a robot that performs...
Thiswork presents a constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) model for the planning and scheduling of disassembly and assembly tasks when repairing or substituting faulty parts. The problem involves not only the ordering of assembly and disassembly tasks, but also the selection of them from a set of alternatives. The goal of the plan is the...
In order to be able to flexibly adjust a company's business processes (BPs) there is an increasing interest in flexible Process-Aware Information Systems (PAISs). This increasing flexibility, however, typically implies decreased user guidance by the PAIS and thus poses additional challenges to its users. This work proposes a...
There is an increasing interest in aligning information systems in a process-oriented way. As an alternative of the traditional imperative models which tend to be too rigid, processes may be specified in a declarative (e.g., constraint-based) way. Nonetheless, in general, offering operational support (e.g., generating possible execution...
This paper proposes a constraint-based model for the Job Shop Scheduling Problem to be solved using local search techniques. The model can be used to represent a multiple software process planning problem when the different (activities of) projects compete for limited sta®. The main aspects of the model are: the use of integer variables which...
This work presents a constraint based model for the planning and scheduling of disconnection and connection tasks when repairing faulty parts. The problem involves the ordering and the selection of tasks from a set of alternatives. The goal of the plan is the minimization of the repair duration and cost. The model considers, apart from the...
This work presents a constraint based model for the planning and scheduling of disconnection and connection tasks when repairing faulty components in a system. Since multi-mode operations are considered, the problem involves the ordering and the selection of the tasks and modes from a set of alternatives, using the shared resources efficiently....
Business processes which require a high flexibility are com- monly specified in a declarative (e.g., constraint-based) way. In general, offering operational support (e.g., generating possible execution traces) to declarative business process models entails more complexity when compared to imperative modeling alternatives. Such support becomes...
In order to be able to flexibly adjust a company's business processes (BPs) there is an increasing interest in flexible process-aware information systems (PAISs). This increasing flexibility, however, typically implies decreased user guidance by the PAIS and thus poses significant challenges to its users. As a major contribution of this work,...
Managing large collections of business process (BP) models is increasingly being necessary for organizations. For this, configurable BP models can be used for managing these BPs while allowing analysts to understand what these BPs share and what their differences are. Before the execution of the configurable BP model, a BP model has to be...
Unlike imperative models, the specifi cation of business process (BP) properties in a declarative way allows the user to specify what has to be done instead of having to specify how it has to be done, thereby facilitating the human work involved, avoiding failures, and obtaining a better optimization. Frequently, there are several enactment...
Business process (BP) models are usually defined manually by business analysts through imperative languages considering activity properties, constraints imposed on the relations between the activities as well as different performance objectives. Furthermore, allocating resources is an additional challenge since scheduling may significantly...
The manual specification of imperative business process (BP) models can be very complex and time-consuming, potentially leading to non-optimized models or even errors. To support process analysts in the definition of these models, a method for generating optimized configurable BP models from a constraint-based specification by considering...
Declarative business process (BP) models are increasingly used allowing their users to specify what has to be done instead of how. Due to their flexible nature, there are several enactment plans related to a specific declarative model, each one presenting specific values for different objective functions, e.g., completion time or profit. In...
Context: The quality of business process models (i.e., software artifacts that capture the relations between the organizational units of a business) is essential for enhancing the management of business processes. However, such modeling is typically carried out manually. This is already challenging and time consuming when (1) input uncertainty...
Models are used in science and engineering for experimentation, analysis, diagnosis or design. In some cases, they can be considered as numeric constraint satisfaction problems (NCSP). Many models are symmetrical NCSP. The consideration of symmetries ensures that NCSP-solver will find solutions if they exist on a smaller search space. Our work...
When designing an imperative business process (BP) model, analysts have to face many design requirements (e.g., managing uncertainty, optimizing conflicting objective functions). To facilitate such design, declarative BP models are increasingly used. However, how to execute a given declarative model can be quite challenging since there...
This paper focuses on the difficulty for university students to acquire, within computational thinking, the skills to solve certain problems through recur sion. The acquisition of this type of reasoning is essential to understand the dif ferent problem solving techniques that are based on recursive algorithms, such as divide and conquer or...
This work presents a proposal to diagnose business processes that form a global process using a choreography analysis. The diagnosis is based on distributed diagnosis since the business process is formed by a process orchestrations modelled by a set of activities. These business processes have two different types of activities, with internal...