Visualizing the control perspectives of business process models within 3D virtual environments

Name: Stephen West

Title (Masters): Visualizing the control perspectives of business process models within 3D virtual environments.

Abstract: Changes in technology, market demand, competition, and workforces are just some of the challenges facing businesses today. Business Process Management (BPM) has been widely adopted to deal with these issues employing methods, techniques, and tools to support the design, enactment, management and analysis of operational business processes. The aim of BPM systems is to support the whole lifecycle of business processes. However, BPM has lacked the vision to engage the business world at its lowest level in validating the executable workflow models that are created and used by the IT infrastructure, to identify process improvements. This research project focuses on providing visualisation approaches to assist with the validation of workflow models derived from business processes. The motivation is driven by the need to provide business stakeholders with a visually understandable representation for how a business process is enacted within the real world. Satisfying this need will see a reduction in the number of times the process model lifecycle has to be repeated before a valid or correct model can be established.