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Background: Software Process Simulation Modeling (SPSM) is of paramount importance to support quantitative management of software development process. Hybrid process simulation combines multiple simulation paradigms to reflect complex changes in realistic software processes, which brings inherent challenges to process management. Constructing a hybrid model requires more modeling expertise and experience than modeling by solo-paradigm. However, a few studies explicitly discuss the challenges they encountered as a topic, which may discourage practitioners. Objective: Our aim in this study is to present an industrial process modeling project as an exemplar to demonstrate and discuss the technical issues and challenges associated with hybrid process simulation in practice. Method: Based on the collaboration with a global software enterprise, we constructed a hybrid process simulation model that combines System Dynamics (SD) and Discrete Event Simulation (DES) to predict the project duration and release date for management. Results: Several challenges around hybrid process simulation of software development process are identified and discussed with the proposal of sets of solutions from different perspectives. The model is validated by comparing the simulation result with the actual enactment of the process in industry. In addition, the result confirms the rationality and efficacy of the suggested solutions to some extent. Conclusions: In the collaboration with the enterprise, five-step modeling procedure was adopted for constructing the hybrid process model. The experience reported about the detailed steps of hybrid modeling may offer reference value to the SPSM community.

The physics/information fusion has become an important foundation for operation control of AC/DC power distribution system. In this paper, the operation control architecture of multi-terminal DC power distribution system based on IEC 61850 is proposed, including system management level, process management level, and process equipment level. The composition modules and operation control functions of the system management level are designed. The design method of software/hardware for intelligent electronic devices (IED) in the process management level is presented. Given the typical operation control strategies of the multi-terminal DC power distribution system, the IEC 61850 physics/information fusion model is extended. On this basis, the implementation method of system operation and control based on IEC 61850 is also elaborated. Further, the typical operation scenarios are verified by using the actual test platform. The research results show that the proposed operation control technology based on physics/information fusion is feasible.

As a key link to directly connect with power users, how to ensure the safe, economical and efficient operation of the distribution network and improve the lifecycle management capabilities of the distribution equipment assets have been a long-term concern of grid companies. This paper proposes a new set of power equipment life-cycle management capability assessment model for power grid companies. It comprehensively constructs a power equipment life-cycle management capability assessment framework from the aspects of quality improvement along with process management and control. The corresponding index system is used to guide the discovery of weak links in asset management of power distribution equipment and improve them in a timely manner. The validity of the proposed model is proved by case study.

Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Networks (LoWPAN) has begun to be widely used in daily-life applications such as surveillance and maintenance. Their simple structures and low cost make them ideal for these kinds of tasks. LoWPAN nodes mostly locate outside world and may suffer from physical intervention. Other wireless sources may also have effect on transmission quality of LoWPAN nodes. Besides these concerns, unmanaged devices have potential to be exposed to various types of security threats. LoWPAN nodes need to be managed as a consequence of these reasons. Proactive approaches are ideal solutions for the management and governance of constrained devices. In this paper, a self-organizing architecture for device and network management in LoWPAN is proposed. The architecture defines the framework to process management data and mechanisms for improvement actions. A real-time test environment is prepared to show that how the system can run with different LoWPAN management protocols and a performance comparison of those protocols is also presented.

Introduction: Public and private hospital institutions have constantly experienced problems attributed to the safety and quality of care provided to their users. Objective: Introduce the implementation of a uniform and safe medication administration process using the pillars of Triple Aim. Method: Intervention applied research, with the support of the Process Management modeling stages carried out in an inpatient unit of a pediatric hospital, involving 23 nursing technicians and four nurses. Results: There were four stages: Describe “AS IS”, in which the existing reality was seen represented in Bizagi®, BPM software; Plan “TO BE”, in which the process for implantation was developed, considering the case of Triple Aim and the nine rights of the administration of medicines, represented by Bizagi®; Act “TO DO”, in which the implementation of the process defined through on-the-job training took place; and Evaluate “Control”, in which focal groups and interviews were carried out, verifying the professionals’ experiences about the process implemented. Conclusions: The implementation of the latest updates in the drug process through management tools, process modeling software and international initiatives has contributed to the safety in care process and also to continue looking for improvements in the nursing team’s performance.

Business Process Analysis can be used to eliminate or reduce a waste cost caused by non value added activities that exist in a process. This research aims at evaluating activities carried out in the natural material procurement process in the PT XYZ, calculating the effectiveness of the process cycle, finding a way to improve the process management, and calculating the cost reduction that can achieved by activity management. A case study was the approach of this research. The researcher obtained research data throughout deep interviews with the staff who directly involved in the process, observation, and documentation of natural material procurement. The result of this study show that the effectiveness of the process cycle of natural material procurement in the factory reached as much as 87,1% for the sand material and 72% for the crushed stone. This indicates that the process still carry activities with no added value and still contain ineffective costs. Through the Business Process Mechanism, these non value added activities can be managed so that the process cycle becomes more efficient and cost effectiveness is achieved. The result of the effective cycle calculation after the management activities implementation is 100%. This means that the cost of natural material procurement process has become effective. The result of calculation of the estimated cost reduction as a result of management activity is as much as Rp249.026.635,90 per year.

Intranet-Based Workforce Management System for SPi Customer Relationship Management Inc., Makati City is the proposed system that provides employee information, agent schedules, updated team roster and reports to users which could be a process improvement for workforce management team and human resources department when it comes to validation of requests from operations. As a whole system, it provides information for the agent and users in-terms of schedules and reports that can be useful to assess performance. It also has useful functionalities that help to improve the current process of workforce management when it comes to record-keeping and data processing.

Purpose: The literature offers many definitions of the Lean but it lacks a standard definition that would facilitate its implementation. These definitions are closely related to the specificities of the domain, sector or problem studied. The purpose of this paper is to capture the concepts of the Lean to propose a generic definition independent of the application domain. Design/methodology/approach: Eighteen Lean systematic literature reviews in different domains have been studied in this paper to understand the Lean and capture the concepts thoroughly. These reviews reviewed a total of more than 2171 articles. Findings: This paper presents a new reading of the Lean. A Lean domain model has been established to represent the concepts and their interactions. Research limitations/implications: This research is limited by the papers indexed in the Scopus database and presenting a systematic literature review. Originality/value: A reference model of the Lean lacks in the literature. The proposed domain model clarifies the Lean and provides a holistic view that is valid in all domains.

Long-Term Personal Services are characterized by long-term objectives, human interaction and multiple service encounters. Examples would be services in Physiotherapy, Psychotherapy, Family Care or Coaching. In this domain, a lot of process knowledge lies in unstructured text data like reports, internal documentation and logged communication for the coordination of service encounters. The applicability and potential of dictionary-based text classification for the analysis of these service processes are investigated. Results are derived from literature review and a case study. The investigations are part of a larger project focusing on smart process management in social care.

In the publication the necessity of comprehensive educational establishment teachers’ mutual systemic and structured interaction with the school administration has been raised The need for teachers’ professional proficiency development and collaboration with methodological work doers for an efficient educational process provision are especially emphasized, as well as urgency for new productive cooperation models has been marked out, which, providing pedagogical interaction, gives an opportunity to increase in a qualitative way pupils’ achievements, the study process outcome improvement in the education content during the time of changes or transformation. The authors of the article raise a hypothetical question whether interaction among the subjects involved in intervention actually exist and how efficient it is, in order to move towards common goal implementation and qualitative development of pupils’ outcomes in the discourse of multistage cooperative relationships. Observing and analysing the course of educational establishments’ different pedagogical and management processes, features have been detected that the aspects of interaction culture are uncertain, which reveals challenges for search of a new approach to collaborative models.

With the major development of sensor technologies and advancements of communication network infrastructures, there is a growing interest to add more intelligence in the e-health monitoring for facilitating an effective healthcare system. While IoT devices are capable of continuous health-parameter sensing and providing notifications to the user, an effective business process management (BPM) facilitates effective system integration and data processing workflow. This paper proposes an efficient framework for managing emergency situations (specifically, health-related) through the analysis of heterogeneous data sources. The proposed framework, named CLAWER (CLoud-Fog bAsed Workflow for Emergency seRvice) aims to bridge the gap between process management and data analytics by providing an automated workflow for personalized health-monitoring and efficient recommendation system. Here, the IoT devices are used for collecting the movement and health data. The smart phone can act as an edge device to acquire data with user movement information. The accumulated data is initially processed inside the fog device, and finally the analysis and recommendations are generated by the cloud. In this paper the indoor health-status of the users are analysed in small cell cloud enhanced eNode B, which is used as fog device. The generated recommendations are stored in the fog device to provide the recommendations to the users with low latency and in timely manner. The experimental analysis of CLAWER yields better precision and recall values than the existing methods.

Contemporary society is pervaded by complex processes. A company’s success may depend on the proper definition, handling and management of its processes. Automated process management is fundamental to efficiently, effectively and economically carry out complex processes. In particular, process discovery is fundamental to automatically obtain process models from available executions of processes, because manually building these models is complex, costly and error-prone. Very important is incrementality in learning and adapting the models. This is not trivial, especially if the model includes multi-perspectiveness and guards. This paper describes the incremental process discovery strategy of the WOMAN framework for workflow management, based on First-Order Logic. It is fully and inherently incremental, it is more expressive than standard formalisms adopted in the literature, and ensures strict adherence to the observed practices. The incremental behavior of WoMan is also analyzed, reporting several experiments that show its effectiveness and efficiency.

Process Management techniques are useful in domains where the availability of a (formal) process model can be leveraged to monitor, supervise, and control a production process. While their classical application is in the business and industrial fields, other domains may profitably exploit Process Management techniques. Some of these domains (e.g., people’s behavior, General Game Playing) are much more flexible and variable than classical ones, and, thus, raise the problem of predicting which activities will be carried out next, a problem that is not so compelling in classical fields. When the process model is learned automatically from examples of process executions, which is the task of Process Mining, the prediction performance may also provide indirect indications on the correctness and reliability of the learned model. This paper proposes and compares two strategies for activity prediction using the WoMan framework for workflow management. The former proved to be able to handle complex processes, the latter is based on the classic and consolidated Naive Bayes approach. An experimental validation allows us to draw considerations on the pros and cons of each, used both in isolation and in combination.

Block chain technology can save a lot of intermediary cost by means of decentralized distributed structure, and can solve the problem of data tracking and information security by means of unauthorized timestamp. The security trust mechanism can solve the core defects of the current Internet of Things technology. The flexible programmable characteristics can standardize the existing market order, help to enhance and create trust, and change the mode of cooperation and business cooperation between people. By setting up scenario application mode based on block chain, such as block chain credit financing, block chain procurement financing, etc., we can achieve the goal of shortening the time of supply chain management, improving the quality and meeting the demand. In this paper, the process of supply chain management information system and the key technology of block chain are analysed, and the collaborative mechanism of supply chain management information system from the perspective of block chain is proposed, including the process and consensus collaborative management mechanism, which optimizes the transaction process management and block chain system consensus, accounting and so on. On this basis, the supply chain management information system platform architecture under the collaborative mechanism is designed, which provides a reference path for the performance improvement and platform architecture design of data transaction system based on block chain.

Supply chain management and complex logistics compel constant monitoring and handling of even more growing shipment chains. Therefore, it prompts the necessity to track and trace goods, for ensuring the control and management of the different logistics operations. In port terminals, tracking and tracing cargo is primitive for smooth and flexible services. Technologies such as RFID, GPS, RTLS, etc. are widely used for monitoring cargo flow in the logistics chain. In light of this, this paper proposes a novel architecture based on auto-ID technologies like QRcode, Barcode, Magnetic card ID to support real-time tracking of vehicles in a RoRo terminal and provide their stay time as well as processing time in each service. The modeled system aims to solve dynamic logistics process management problems, monitor rolling cargo, identify similar behavior as well as increase traffic flow and reduce check-in time. Design/approach: The proposed architecture provides a real-time tracking capability. It tracks a vehicle in each area of the terminal through a portal that identify it using a barcode, a QRcode or a magnetic ID card. The system performs the process logic checking/reasoning and provides process knowledge support. Originality: The proposed architecture is a novel approach which leverages the logistics performance in RoRo terminals and facilitates the tracking of vehicles and provides a real-time knowledge support on processes for those who handle logistics operations.

Clearly defined, documented, and managed processes form the foundation for how we effectively develop medicines for our patients. For this reason, process has been identified as a primary "element" of an effective quality management system (QMS) as described in the TransCelerate clinical quality management system (CQMS) conceptual framework. The importance of identifying and effectively managing processes is also emphasized in ICH GCP E6 (R2) in the new Section 5.0 Quality Management. An effective process management framework is fundamental to ensure the efficient and effective delivery of clinical development programs, enhance quality and productivity, and ultimately benefit our ability to deliver needed treatments to patients. The aim of this paper is to provide a conceptual process management framework to be used as guidance for effective process mapping, process documentation, implementation of optimal learning methods, and ensuring ongoing process performance evaluation and continuous improvement.

This study was initiated for the benefit of the Tunisian Ministry of Health and the Informatics Centre of the Ministry of Health (CIMSP). The scope of our study is restricted to two university hospitals: HUC Habib Thameur considered as pilot institution and the University Hospital Charles Nicolle. We have identified the "hospitalized patient pathway with additional acts” process as a typical process for conducting this study. The objective of this paper is to propose a quality assurance approach for automating and managing hospital business processes. This is to show how to build a framework for an existing process in order to evaluate it and analyse it. In particular, we are looking into identifying the process’s operational limits, its malfunctioning and shortcoming, its degree of ICT integration and finally we are interested in evaluating the process’s quality when deployed on different health care sites. It is in this sense that we propose, in this work, to put in place an approach for managing hospital business processes. This approach contributes first to ensuring reliable monitoring of the processes by obtaining an overview of each one. Second, it helps to precisely measure the minimum and maximum duration of execution of the process. Third, we also aim to identify the formal and informal actors involved and validate their commitment and expertise with relation to the implementation of the process. We chose to use Business Process Modelling and Notation (BPMN) [13] and UML for our business processes modelling. Both technologies are recognized in the industrial world and are recommended by a wide audience for formal definition, documentation and understanding of the hospital business process. Finally, the proposed approach can also be exploited for the development of new processes as extension or enhancement to the existing ones. The resulting models will be used as a framework for actors centred process management and evaluation.

In recent years, fiber-reinforced polymers (FRP) found their way into automotive serial production. This was motivated by vehicle weight reduction resulting in decreased fuel consumption in the use phase. Due to the complexity of FRP manufacturing processes, only few data for life cycle inventory (LCI) are available in databases. Furthermore, a widespread range of LCA results can be attained in dependence of the actual process parameters and part design. In order to keep up with the composite technology development, a process chain based data capturing is required taking into account deviations from the target state. This contribution therefore suggests the combination of LCI with process chain analysis. In the FOREL project FuPro, an innovative process chain for manufacturing of functionalized hollow profiles made of glass fiber-reinforced thermoplastics was developed. It comprises several steps, which cannot be evaluated using state-of-the-art databases. Hence, technologically and ecologically relevant data were captured. For this purpose, a gate-to-gate perspective was used. The process steps of plasma treatment and IR heating are selected. The presented course of action provides a resilient and flexible basis for LCA, which prospectively allows a goal-oriented multi-criteria analysis and derivation of best practice process management.

The company’s ability to adapt to rapid market changes will be among the key factors for Industry’s competitiveness within Industry 4.0. The basic of flexibility is quick respond to customer requirements and well-set and controlled production processes. Processes of Industry 4.0 will be different from existing processes, not only in terms of using new technologies such as digitization or augmented reality, but also in terms of management and support processes. The main aim of the article is possible changes determination of process management within Industry 4.0. For that, the current production process will be compared with the process in Industry 4.0. The described changes within Industry 4.0 will also have an impact on the organization architecture of company. The changes will be also in the production environment and in the supply chain. The described changes in the process management will also have an impact on the company risks. The main risks of changes within Industry 4.0 will be summarized in the article.

Sanitary services present various challenges, one of them are bottlenecks. bottlenecks cause anomalies and eventualities in the processes flow, directly affecting the patient’s attention quality. The health organizations procure to apply a process management focusing and the usage of different technologies to improve their performance. Process mining is a technology for the process analysis, which possibilities to identify characteristics and issues associated with the execution of the process from information systems. XAVIA HIS system has the necessary characteristics to contribute to the identification of bottlenecks applying process mining techniques. This research had as objective to develop and integrates an analysis view to identify bottlenecks from the XAVIA HIS system. To fulfill the proposed objective was selected and personalized the "Replay a log on Petri Net for Performance / Conformance" technique of process mining on the system. The analysis view developed and incorporated to the system, will allow making an analysis of the sanitary institutions execution processes. The solution proposal benefits the professionals and patients of the hospital institutions, increasing that way the quality of the provided services.

The underground provides many spatial planning opportunities as it offers space for structures, but also functions as a resource for energy. To guide developments and use the capabilities the underground provides, the Dutch national government started a policy process for the Structuurvisie Ondergrond (a master plan). Stakeholders are involved in the policy process because of the many interests linked to underground functions. However, past policy processes related to the underground dealt with lack of stakeholder satisfaction. This article explores a quantitative approach by focusing on (a) statistical testing of four criteria of interactive governance and (b) using said criteria to evaluate the satisfaction of stakeholders in a policy process. This article highlights the usefulness of a more quantitative approach and provides new insights into the relation between interactive governance and the procedural satisfaction of stakeholders. It also provides insights that help to improve interactive governance in terms of process management to achieve greater procedural satisfaction.

Business process management (BPM) is a holistic discipline which is focused on improving organizational performance by managing the business processes of the organization. In recent decades, it has been widely accepted and implemented across many different organizations with some success. However, there were some issues regarding the traditional approach to BPM, like the reality-model divide, etc. As a response, a new discipline, called social BPM has emerged which is based on the principles of social software. For the purpose of this article, a Delphi study has been conducted with the aim of defining the social BPM as well as to identify its main characteristics. The results are presented in this article, proposing a single definition of social BPM and the list of its characteristics.

This article studies the influence of enterprise core competence on IT application maturity (ITAM) from the perspectives of management institutional and process management capabilities. The roles of firm ownership and international organization of standard (ISO) certifications are also studied. Based on reliable and valid measurements of IT applications maturity, management institutional capability, and process management capability, the authors collect corresponding data from 123 companies in China. They find a positive relationship between capabilities and ITAM. Management institutional capability has a stronger relationship with ITAM in Chinese state-owned enterprises or public companies; while multinational companies or joint ventures witness a stronger relationship with process management capability. ISO helps companies with low management institutional capability to improve ITAM. However, for companies with higher management institutional capability, ISO mitigates the relationship and poses a shift of the importance to process management capability in improving ITAM.

The model of the event log of the information system has been improved. The model contains the sequences of events consistent with implemented sequences of management actions within both the process approach and functional management approach. A strict linear order in time was assigned for each pair of events belonging to the same process. The model is designed to describe the prototype of the as-is business process. A case-based model of a business process, describing the features of its known implementations, reflected in the event log, has been proposed. The model combines a set of implemented sequences of operations of each process and takes into consideration the time to implement these operations, as well as the resources they need. When describing the time to implement the operations of a process, delays in accessing the company’s shared resources are taken into consideration. The model makes it possible to predict the terms of completing the set of business processes competing for the resources when removing or adding new processes to this set. The technology for changing the sequence of access to resources for a set of business processes competing for these resources within the process management was developed. The proposed technology uses the case-based model of a business process to calculate the order of access to resources. The technology provides an opportunity to calculate the total reduction in delays over the implementation time in relation to the implementation terms when processes are competing for resources. The technology makes it possible to choose how to access resources with the least delay in relation to operations completion deadlines for the known variants of a business process implementation. This enables a DM to assess the possibility of launching new processes that use shared resources by reducing the waiting time when accessing these resources

Many CSS tutorials exist online, yet novice web developers struggle to learn and apply professional CSS techniques. In this paper, we introduce Knowledge Maps (KM), a platform that guides novice developers to understand and compare professional web examples in order to learn and apply each example's professional techniques. By comparing professional techniques, learners are able to identify the tradeoffs and use cases associated with each technique. Knowledge Maps (KM) introduces three process management mechanisms to help learners understand examples: highlighted CSS properties, interactive CSS properties, and guided reflection prompts. In a user study where 9 users interacted with the Knowledge Maps (KM) platform on two examples using CSS grid layout, learners were able to understand the pros and cons between the CSS grid layout technique used in each example. Learners also demonstrated that they could apply their understanding to new use cases.

A great variety of decision support systems is used to make quick and reliable decisions in educational activity in general and in engineering education in particular. The systems are applied in learning path planning, educational programmes implementation, online courses developing, online training process management, etc. Existing methods of decision making are not effective in case of online training process management in implementing complex open ended assignments, which cannot be checked by a test (for example, term papers, calculation and graphic works, laboratory works). Complex open ended assignments are widely used in the field of engineering education. That is why the problem of low training process management effectiveness in it is acute. A decision support method based on error classification with the use of intelligent technologies, such as cognitive modelling technology and knowledge engineering technology, and decision support system implementing the method are suggested in the paper. The decision support system allows to manage education training process regardless of assignment domain and can be applied in engineering education. Approbation of using and the assessment of the effectiveness of the decision support system was organized in online training process management during term paper performance in Ufa state aviation technical university as an example.

The variable reconstruction method to establish the parameterized model of a certain kind of bearing-rotor system is proposed by integrating the multisource programs, parameterized modeling and collaborative process management, a co-simulation design platform is established of the rotor system. It can inherit, fuse and reuse all kinds of design knowledge, and integrate design and simulation software, and even manage the data of design, simulation and experiment. This platform can improve the design and research efficiency of the bearingrotor system.

The generalization and systematization of various scientific views of both domestic and foreign researchers on the problem of educational data mining (EDM) and their application to support decision-making on the educational process management. Particular attention is paid to the problems of automatic extraction of interpreted knowledge from educational data in order to transfer it to users and facilitate the processes of interactive computing and communication among users. The proposed methods and models allow increasing the effectiveness of decision-making process at all stages of the educational process management. The novelty of the work results is a new approach to the extraction of interpretable knowledge based on the use of a special class of neural network models, as well as the hybridization of several approaches developed as part of data mining into a single learning environment in order to implement an end-to-end learning strategy, including the steps of data collecting and analyzing, knowledge extracting and management. The paper presents the fragments of the developed software that provides EDM by individual methods.

Based on the theory of software engineering, this paper designs a university research project management system based on cloud platform. The system includes project application and review module, project opening management module, project progress management module, project completion management module and project research results display module, which realizes the distributed submission of project declaration, opening report, progress report and conclusion report, and network review. The system has the characteristics of electronic materials, uninterrupted service, office network, automatic results, and feedback zero distance. It effectively solves the problem of declaration review and process management of university research projects, improves project management efficiency, and saves the working hours of project management personnel, review experts and teachers, promotes the university research results and realizes the informationization of university research project management.

With the rapid development of the shipbuilding industry and the increasingly frequent communication with the outside world, the joining of various industries has made the management of shipbuilding projects more and more complicated. The traditional manual management method is difficult to adapt to the increasing number of ship engineering projects, which seriously hinders the development of the enterprise. It is essential to manage the project side scientifically, standardly and reasonably. Based on the problems existing in the ship engineering project management center, this paper demonstrates how to apply information technology to the project management process based on the SQL Server database for data organization and system development. By considering system requirements from the bottom up, and considering data requirements from the top down through life cycle design, a general model containing ship product data is developed. The system can ensure that the correct data is provided to the user at the right time and in the correct form, making the entire ship engineering project proceed more smoothly. It solves the problems of cluttered project information, difficult information integration, and chaotic process management. It realizes the functions of electronic management of ship engineering projects, unified management of initial data, and online pro-cessing of business processes, which improves management efficiency and reduces management costs.

Successful modernization of the Russian Federations healthcare system depends on the efficiency of organization processes transformation in healthcare and medicine on the basis of digital platforms. It will allow to provide constant control over expenses for achievement of careful rational expenditure of means, and also the new medical, organizational technologies promoting formation of economy (management of patients streams, telemedicine, providing information support of medical diagnostic processes and medical decisions, geoinformation systems application, systems of processing of medical images). The creation and active use of digital platforms will contribute to the introduction of a model of process management in the healthcare sector, which focuses on the performance of functions by departments and, as a consequence, meeting the needs of citizens. Digital healthcare platforms combine such information resources as laboratory results, electronic patient histories, standards of diagnosis and treatment of patients financial and economic information, databases of medicines, material and labor resources, expert systems, etc. Electronic services allow to use all modern possibilities of collection, storage and processing of information that promotes leveling of the errors connected with time delays of paper document circulation, increase of efficiency of use of working time of doctors, creation of comfortable conditions for interaction with patients.

The monitoring and management of tool life plays a key role in achieving maximum tool utilization and reducing tool usage costs. This paper proposes a process management and monitoring scheme, which covers the whole lifecycle of tools and has dynamic adjustment and tracking. Based on the C# programming language and MySQL database, a workshop-level tool management system is developed. The system realizes the inventory management of the workshop tools and also the visual tracking of the tool life information from the storage to the scrapping process. The life monitoring process includes manual adjustment by filling in the receipt and automatic adjustment of system integration monitoring.

Contemporary third-party logistics (3PL) companies tend to broaden their competences in different fields and apart from traditional logistics services provide various value-added services to their customers. A systematic approach of 3PL resource management, as well as performance and quality indicator measurement are needed to forecast development of key performance indicators of a company. The purpose of this study is to discover contemporary tendencies of 3PL with regard to resources, performance and quality related issues, to determine resources, processes and quality indicators of 3PL, and to develop a system dynamics model for optimization of internal resources and processes of a company. The paper provides a systematic review of literature related to management of 3PL resources, quality and performance measurement. A model of management and optimization of 3PL resources and internal processes is developed by applying System Dynamics. The developed model consists of six blocks, namely, commercial activities, operations, procurement, administration, personnel management and quality management, representing different areas of internal activities of 3PL.

The problem of constructing an attribute description of a business process with the automated formation of process models “as is” using logs of information systems in which the tracks of individual processes are not identified is considered. It is shown that to solve this problem, it is advisable to distinguish the distinctive properties of individual business processes represented by the attributes of log events. A method for constructing an attribute description of a business process is proposed. The method is based on the comparison of combinations of attributes for intervals of events of a fixed length and the subsequent selection of subsets of attributes with the same values. The method includes the steps of forming the intervals of events, constructing combinations of attributes for specified intervals, as well as calculating and subsequently averaging the weights of combinations of attributes on these intervals. The result of the method is a weight-ordered set of event attributes and their values, which takes into account the attribute and temporal aspects of the business process. The method creates conditions for a more efficient transition from functional to process management based on splitting the log into processes using the resulting attribute description and subsequent prototyping of business process models “as is” by means of process mining.

High-Performance Computing (HPC) applications have historically executed in static resource allocations, using programming models that ran independently from the resident system management stack (SMS). Achieving exascale performance that is both cost-effective and fits within site-level environmental constraints will, however, require that the application and SMS collaboratively orchestrate the flow of work to optimize resource utilization and compensate for on-the-fly faults. The Process Management Interface - Exascale (PMIx) community is committed to establishing scalable workflow orchestration by defining an abstract set of interfaces by which not only applications and tools can interact with the resident SMS, but also the various SMS components can interact with each other. This paper presents a high-level overview of the goals and current state of the PMIx standard, and lays out a roadmap for future directions.

The article stands for the theoretical underpinning of economic grounds of tax system and its building on the basis of social- and business-oriented socioeconomic features. Authors proved the need for tax process management that represent the features of government-society-taxpayer relations with taxpayer’s leading role as macroeconomic tool for economic regulation process as well as providing the sustainable and balanced economic growth and innovative modernization of Russian economy., peer-reviewed

Considered the first principle of the formation of the phenomenon of development of society at the level of territorial communities. The results of the study of the expansion of the possibilities of development of territorial communities as the initial level of society existence in the conditions of modernization of local self-government through the introduction of a process approach are given. The proofs of the priority role of the processes of development of territories and the necessity of creating control systems for the development process as a fractal system of local self-government are given. It is noted that the management of development processes at the local level has not yet been brought to theoretical and methodological clarity; not provided theoretical characteristics, parameters and indicators of development processes; the technology of construction and flow is not simulated; There are no defined approaches to the evaluation of the results of processes in accordance with the vectors of community development, which testifies to the lack of effective management of the phenomenon of development, starting with the initial level of its occurrence. To solve the problem of intensification and increase of the development of territorial communities, a conceptual vision of process management, creation of a system of process management, which is considered as a fractal component of the system of local self-government is developed. It is represented by a conceptual apparatus for controlling processes proposed by the definition of the concepts of «process», «development process», the path of process management, the structure of the mechanism for managing the development process in the control circuit. Criteria and indicators of controllability of development of processes are determined by adhering to the allowable limits of their fluctuations. The given proposals deepen the theoretical and methodological basis of process management. The proposed algorithm for designing development processes at the first stage of their life cycle allows you to streamline the management of development processes, reduce the path and time for their implementation. Using the results of the research carried out will allow to focus efforts and formulate tasks for local self-government bodies for the implementation of development functions; establish the level of economic, social and resource efficiency of processes; deepen the social consolidation of power, residents and business entities; to carry out comprehensive support of the components in the chain of their interaction and implementation of results; to expand the space of intuitive, creative innovative thinking when making managerial decisions.

This interesting and timely book examines the challenges faced by manufacturing systems that integrate information technology, process management, and optimization within the Internet of Things (Io...

The Object of the Study. Precarity of employment.The Subject of the Study. Automation of process management.The Purpose of the Study. Studying the prospects of automation of process management for reducing precarious employmentThe Main Provisions of the Article. In the digitalization environment process control automation at the enterprise becomes an effective mechanism to increase the transparency of management, its openness and at the same time contribute to reducing the volatility of employment. Within the framework of the article, the possibilities of automation of process management are being considered in order to reduce the volatility of employment of the population.

WOS: 000450861500005, Purpose - Training management has critical in developing of civil aviation sector in Turkey. It requires using serious corporate sources for this reason is directly topic of aviation management and strategy.it is also about process management. According to this view, this paper aims to become a guidance to management training for maintenance or training organisations in the aviation sector wishing to obtain the authorisation, given national civil aviation authority (Directorate General of Civil Aviation), of providing type rating trainings that cover the types of aeroplanes including Beech 90 Series, Socata TB Series and Cessna/Reims-Cessna 172/F172 Series. Design/methodology/approach - Aviation training organisations must be managed according to aviation law and regulations. It includes several approval processes about training content. Managers must be organising their resources, and they should get well timely decision made in optimum time. In this study, a flowchart, that is the procedure to follow in accordance with the related aviation regulations, has been developed while taking the opinion of experts and using experience gained from the approval process for the type trainings. This flowchart may gain time to managers in their approval process. It may use as guidance to create optimum flow in their process management. Findings - The purpose of flowchart developed is to shorten the authorisation processes of the relative institutions by eliminating the challenges caused by the excess and complexity of national or international regulations related to the of authorisation of aircraft type rating training. Originality/value - It is important to gain authority. But more important is to manage the authority as sustainable way in aviation training. Loosing authority in specific field may effect on both corporate reputation and doing aviation business. Anadolu University manages related risk via scientific project during using their authorisation. The results developed as a result of the expert opinions and the experience gained during the aircraft type training authorisation process will contribute to the literature. When considered from this point of view, it is expected for this study to fill an important gap in the literature. It is highly important for the aviation sector in terms of evaluating and interpreting academically such a process for practice, and also raising awareness or providing awareness for similar practices. It may also useful for process management., Anadolu University [1608F603], This study was based on the scientific research project titled "Development of Flow Charts for Aircraft Type Training Approval and Implementation Process" and project no. 1608F603 of Anadolu University. The authors thank all their friends and project team in Aircraft Maintenance Unit of the Faculty for their help.

Our research objective is to lower intralogistics costs by minimizing the number of shuffling operations in a steel plant company commercial warehouse. The process of dispatching products consists of retrieving set of steel bar (SSB) from a floor stored stack or a special stacking frame by an overhead crane. To retrieve a targeted merchandise all SSB above targeted must be reshuffled. Proper assignment of storage locations is a key logistics problem for efficient order picking. We are comparing two heuristics, that do not require information of dispatching sequence of any stored products. We simulated the problem at hand with both methods. Our objective is to count the number of reshuffles using each heuristic on randomly generated examples and decide which is better in the long run. Our problem has similarities with storage assignment of steel plates or steel coils for minimization of reshuffling operations. The problem is also comparable to storage assignment of containers in a container yard. In our case we are dealing with a special stacking configuration of products, that demands different approach. We want to demonstrate which heuristic should be used in companies that lack necessary storage information infrastructure.