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Design and Control of Workflow Processes: Business Process Management for the Service Industry »

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Authors: Hajo Reijers
ISBN-13: 9783540011866, ISBN-10: 3540011862
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York, LLC
Date Published: July 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Hajo Reijers

Book Synopsis

This monograph is devoted to advancing the scientific knowledge about the design and control of workflow processes. The author focuses on the following four issues in the area of business process management:

- adequate workflow modeling

- workflow design and redesign

- performance evaluation of workflow processes

- optimal resource allocation in an operational workflow.

All in all, this book, providing several new results and insights in the field of business process modeling and analysis, is a beautiful mixture of rigorous scientific research and direct practical experiences.

Table of Contents

1Introduction1
2Workflow Modeling31
3Workflow Design61
4Performance Evaluation of Workflows127
5Resource Allocation in Workflows177
6Heuristic Workflow Redesign207
7Systems and Practical Experience245
8Conclusion283
AThe Bottom-Level Workflow Model289
BThe Fourier Transform303
CThe Simulation of the Workbench305
References309

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