The notation was explicitly designed for wide-ranging use in process analysis, The Object Management Group (2011). Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) is the language that is used to model business process steps from start to end. Business Process Modelling is used to describe, recognize, re-engineer, or improve processes or practices, Tomaskova (2017). Silver (2009) stated that this approach is an ‘event-triggered behaviour,’ a description of the ‘something happened’ mode. It is very similar to flowcharts and Petri nets but offers much more sophisticated tools to describe and simulate behaviour. This article focuses on the analysis of the relationship between the Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) process modelling and specific methods of Operational Research.īusiness Process Modelling Notation was created by the Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI) as an open standards. Operational Research as a popular scientific approach is so often associated with procedural issues, making its connection to BPMN is more than natural. The fundamental problem of any complex process is decision making. This wide usage has led to the interconnection and use of other technologies and methods.
During its lifetime, this notation has gained many users and, thanks to its user-friendliness, it is used in many areas. It has been more than 15 years since ‘Business Process Model and Notation’ or ‘Business Process Modelling Notation’ (BPMN) became the official notation for process modelling. It serves not only to analyze the probability of the process, its economic and personnel demands but also for process reengineering. Operational research methods are a useful complement to BPMN process analysis. A total of 11 specific methods falling into the field of Operations Research have been identified, and their use in connection with the process model was described. In this research, thirty-six studies were included and considered. The background information of the included studies, as well as specific information on the used approaches, were extracted. Articles were not excluded based on methodological quality. The inclusion criteria were as follows: Use of Operational Research methods in conjunction with the BPMN, and is available in full-text format. The Web Of Science of Clarivate Analytics was searched for 128 studies of that used operation research techniques and business process model and notation, published in English between 1 January 2004 and. This systematic literature review aimed to provide a detailed and comprehensive description of the relevant aspects of used operational research techniques in Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) model. Process modeling is seldom done without decision-making nodes, which is why operational research methods are increasingly included in the process analyses. PeerJ Computer Science 6: e301 īusiness process modelling is increasingly used not only by the companies’ management but also by scientists dealing with process models. Approaches combining methods of Operational Research with Business Process Model and Notation: A systematic review. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ Computer Science) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited. Majors in CSE typically satisfy the MTH 2 Thematic Sequence (Basic Mathematical Tools for Science).3 Institute of Applied Mathematics, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey DOI 10.7717/peerj-cs.301 Published Accepted Received Academic Editor Daniel De Oliveira Subject Areas Data Science, Optimization Theory and Computation, Social Computing Keywords BPMN, Business process model and notation, Operation Research, OR, Decision making, Techniques, Review Copyright © 2020 Tomaskova and Weber Licence This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. Otherwise, follow the program below, which includes the CSE 3 Thematic Sequence (Mathematical and Computer Modeling). To explore the possibility of designing your own program, contact the advisor for this minor in the Department of Mathematics. All courses must be taken for a grade, not credit/no-credit. A minimum 2.00 GPA is required for all courses applicable to the minor. It seeks to observe, understand, and predict the behavior of human-machine systems through the use of mathematical models. Operations research is the use of scientific methods in decision making. For information, contact the Department of Mathematics, 123 Bachelor Hall (51).