• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.109-118
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• 2012

This paper theoretically derives an algorithm to discover a new type of workflow-based knowledge from workflow models, which is termed workflow-based affiliation network knowledge. In general, workflow intelligence (or business process intelligence) technology consists of four types of techniques that discover, analyze, monitor and control, and predict a series of workflow-based knowledge from workflow models and their execution histories. So, this paper proposes a knowledge discovery algorithm which is able to discover workflow-based affiliation networks that represent the association and participation relationships between activities and performers defined in ICN-based workflow models. In order particularly to prove the correctness and feasibility of the proposed algorithm, this paper tries to apply the algorithm to a specific workflow model and to show that it is able to derive its corresponding workflow-based affiliation network knowledge.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.9 no.9
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• pp.3611-3634
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• 2015

In this paper, we build a theoretical framework for quantitatively measuring and graphically representing the degrees of closeness centralization among performers assigned to enact a workflow procedure. The degree of closeness centralization of a workflow-performer reflects how near the performer is to the other performers in enacting a corresponding workflow model designed for workflow-supported organizational operations. The proposed framework comprises three procedural phases and four functional transformations, such as discovery, analysis, and quantitation phases, which carry out ICN-to-WsoN, WsoN-to-SocioMatrix, SocioMatrix-to-DistanceMatrix, and DistanceMatrix-to-CCV transformations. We develop a series of algorithmic formalisms for the procedural phases and their transformative functionalities, and verify the proposed framework through an operational example. Finally, we expatiate on the functional expansion of the closeness centralization formulas so as for the theoretical framework to handle a group of workflow procedures (or a workflow package) with organization-wide workflow-performers.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.691-708
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• 2014

This paper formalizes a special type of social networking knowledge, which is called "workflow performer-role affiliation networking knowledge." A workflow model specifies execution sequences of the associated activities and their affiliated relationships with roles, performers, invoked-applications, and relevant data. In Particular, these affiliated relationships exhibit a stream of organizational work-sharing knowledge and utilize business process intelligence to explore resources allotting and planning knowledge concealed in the corresponding workflow model. In this paper, we particularly focus on the performer-role affiliation relationships and their implications as organizational and business process intelligence in workflow-driven organizations. We elaborate a series of theoretical formalisms and practical implementation for modeling, discovering, and visualizing workflow performer-role affiliation networking knowledge, and practical details as workflow performer-role affiliation knowledge representation, discovery, and visualization techniques. These theoretical concepts and practical algorithms are based upon information control net methodology for formally describing workflow models, and the affiliated knowledge eventually represents the various degrees of involvements and participations between a group of performers and a group of roles in a corresponding workflow model. Finally, we summarily describe the implications of the proposed affiliation networking knowledge as business process intelligence, and how worthwhile it is in discovering and visualizing the knowledge in workflow-driven organizations and enterprises that produce massively parallel interactions and large-scaled operational data collections through deploying and enacting massively parallel and large-scale workflow models.

• The Journal of Information Systems
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.1-8
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• 2005

This paper formally defines a role-driven security and access control model of a business process in order eventually to provide a theoretical basis for realizing the secured business process management systems. That is, we propose a graphical representation and formal description of the mechanism that generates a set of role-driven security and access control models from a business process modeled by the information control net(ICN) modeling methodology that is a typical business process modeling approach for defining and specifying business processes. Based upon the mechanism, we are able to design and accomplish a secured business process management system that provides an unified resource access control mechanism of the business process management engine domain's and the application domain's. Finally, we strongly believe that the secured access control policies from the role-driven security and access control model can be easily transformed into the RBAC(Role-based Access Control) model that is a standardized security technology for computer and communications systems of commercial and civilian government organizations.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.9 no.8
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• pp.3216-3230
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• 2015

A hot-issued research topic in the workflow intelligence arena is the emerging topic of "workflow-supported organizational social networks." These specialized social networks have been proposed to primarily represent the process-driven work-sharing and work-collaborating relationships among the workflow-performers fulfilling a series of workflow-related operations in a workflow-supported organization. We can discover those organizational social networks, and visualize its analysis results as organizational knowledge. In this paper, we are particularly interested in how to visualize the degrees of closeness centralities among workflow-performers by proposing a graphical representation schema based on the Graph Markup Language, which is named to ccWSSN-GraphML. Additionally, we expatiate on the functional expansion of the closeness centralization formulas so as for the visualization framework to handle a group of workflow procedures (or a workflow package) with organizational workflow-performers.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.73-86
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• 2012

This paper theoretically derives an algorithm to discover a new type of social networks from workflow models, which is termed workflow-based social network intelligence. In general, workflow intelligence (or business process intelligence) technology consists of four types of techniques that discover, analyze, monitor and control, and predict from workflow models and their execution histories. So, this paper proposes an algorithm, which is termed ICN-based workflow-based social network intelligence discovery algorithm, to be classified into the type of discovery techniques, which are able to discover workflow-based social network intelligence that are formed among workflow performers through a series of workflow models and their executions, In order particularly to prove the correctness and feasibility of the proposed algorithm, this paper tries to apply the algorithm to a specific workflow model and to show that it is able to generate its corresponding workflow-based social network intelligence.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.149-155
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• 2018

In this paper we propose an algorithm for generating role-performer bipartite matrix for analyzing BPM-based human resource affiliations. Firstly, the proposed algorithm conducts the extraction of role-performer affiliation relationships from ICN(Infromation Contorl Net) based business process models. Then, the role-performer bipartite matrix is constructed in the final step of the algorithm. Conclusively, the bipartite matrix generated through the proposed algorithm ought to be used as the fundamental data structure for discovering the role-performer affiliation networking knowledge, and by using a variety of social network analysis techniques it enables us to acquire valuable analysis results about BPM-based human resource affiliations.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2000.10a
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• pp.125-128
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• 2000

본 논문에서는, 워크플로우 모델링에 사용하는 ICN(Information Control Net)을 위한 자바 기반의 워크플로우 모델링 도구의 설계 및 구현에 관하여 기술하였다. 특히, 본 워크플로우 모델링 도구는 기존의 워크플로우 모델링 도구들과는 달리, 인터넷 기반의 실시간 그룹웨어 기술을 통해 일련의 사용자 그룹이 동시에 워크플로우를 모델링 할 수 있는 기능을 제공하고 있다. 즉, 기존의 워크플로우 모델링 기능에 실시간 그룹웨어 특성들을 통합함으로써, 한 차원 높은 수준의 모델링 환경을 제공하고, 이를 통하여 기존의 워크플로우 시스템들이 지원하지 못했던 조직 내의 구성원들간의 협동 작업을 실시간으로 지원할 수 있을 뿐 만 아니라, 요즘과 같이 대형화와 복잡화 그리고 다양화의 특징을 갖는 조직내의 워크플로우(또는 사무업무 프로세스)들에 대한 효율적인 분석 및 모델링 환경을 제공하는데 그 목적이 있다. 또한, 본 도구를 통한 모델링 결과는 WPDL(Workflow Process Definition Language)라는 국제 표준화 워크플로우 정의 언어로 저장됨으로써, 기존의 다른 워크플로우 시스템들과의 상호 호환성을 제공하고자 하였다.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.113-129
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• 2009

Abstract Corporate activities are composed of numerous working processes and during the working flow, various business processes are being created and completed simultaneously. Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP) makes the working process simple, yet creates more complicated work structure and therefore, there is an absolute need of efficient management for business processes. The workflow literature has been looking for efficient and effective ways of rediscovering and mining workflow intelligence and knowledge from their enactment histories and event logs. As part of studies to analyze and improve the process, the concepts of 'Process Mining', 'Process re-discovery', 'BPR (Business Process Reengineering)' have appeared and the studies for practical implementation are proactively being done. However, these studies normally follow the approach throughout data warehousing for log data of process instances. It is very hard for these approaches to reflect user's intention to the rediscovering and mining activities. The process instances designed based on the consideration of analysis can make groupings effectively and when the analysis demand of user changes within the analysis domain can also reduce the cost of analysis. Therefore, the thesis proposes a special type of workflow model, which is called a colored workflow model, that is extended from the ICN (information control net) modeling methodology by reinforcing the concept of colored token. The colored tokens represent the conceptual types of constraints and criteria that can be used to classifying and grouping the workflow intelligence and knowledge extracted from the corresponding workflow models' enactment histories and event logs. Through the runtime information of process instances, it makes possible to analyze proactive and user-oriented process with the goal of deriving business knowledge from the beginning of process definition.