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Microsoft Word - MITS5507-Assignment_02.docx MITS5507 Assignment 2 MITS5507 Business Process Management Research Report March 2020 MITS5507 Assignment 2 Copyright © 2015-2018 VIT, All Rights Reserved. 2 Research Report (Individual Assignment) - 10% (Due week 9) Objective(s) This assessment item relates to the unit learning outcomes as in the unit descriptor. This assessment is designed to improve student presentation skills and to give students experience in researching a topic and writing a report relevant to the Unit of Study subject matter. INSTRUCTIONS For this component you will prepare a report or critique on an academic paper related to Business Process Modeling or Business Process Management. The paper you select must be directly relevant to one of these major topics. The paper can be from any academic conference or other relevant Journal or online sources such as Google Scholar, Academic department repositories etc... All students must select a different paper, thus the paper must be approved by your instructor or tutor before proceeding. In case two students are wanting to report on the same paper, the first who emails the instructor with their choice will be allocated that paper (provided it is acceptable). Note: popular magazine articles, web sites and blogs are not academic sources. Your report should be limited to approx. 1500 words (not including references). Use 1.5 spacing with a 12 point Times New Roman font. Though your paper will largely be based on the chosen article, you can use other sources to support your discussion. Citation of sources is mandatory and must be in the IEEE style. Your report or critique must include: • Title Page: The title of the assessment, the name of the paper you are reviewing and its authors, and your name and student ID. • Introduction: A statement of the purpose for your report and a brief outline of how you will discuss the selected article (one or two paragraphs). Make sure to identify the article being reviewed. • Body of Report: Describe the intention and content of the article. If it is a research report, discuss the research method (survey, case study, observation, experiment, or other method) and findings. Comment on problems or issues highlighted by the authors. Discuss the conclusions of the article and how they are relevant to what you are MITS5507 Assignment 2 Copyright © 2015-2018 VIT, All Rights Reserved. 3 studying this semester. • Conclusion: A summary of the points you have made in the body of the paper. The conclusion should not introduce any ‘new’ material that was not discussed in the body of the paper. (One or two paragraphs) • References: A list of sources used in your text. They should be listed alphabetically by (first) author’s family name. Follow the IEEE style. • The footer must include your name, student ID, and page number. Resources There are a number of resources you can utilize for finding academic articles and you should make the most of these resources. 1. The VIT Library has access to an extensive array of on-line journals including IEEE and ACM journals. You can access these online Journals through the library’s subscription to the ProQuest platform. You can access this platform by finding the ‘ProQuest academic platform’ link on the StudyBoard@vit home page, towards the bottom of the page in the left column under the heading Resources & Services. 2. Please also refer to the link in the same section on ‘Scholarly Article Searching’. This will show you how to search or articles of the type required for this assignment. 3. In the same section, additionally refer to the link ‘VIT Library Referencing’. This link discusses a number of referencing styles. Different types of Journals will require different styles of referencing and citation, but this assignment requires the IEEE style. Commonly associated with Engineering and Science disciplines. This style is discussed in the document and provides examples and links to further resources. 4. Google Scholar ‘https://scholar.google.com.au/‘ is a separate google search engine that will help you search for scholarly articles (Journal articles and conference papers etc..). It will generally not have access to the resources that Proquest above does as these are usually paid sites. However Google Scholar does index an extremely large amount of scholarly articles located in open access conferences, Journals and academic web sites. Please go through the above notes ‘Scholarly Article Searching’ to find out how to use Google Scholar. MITS5507 Assignment 2 Copyright © 2015-2018 VIT, All Rights Reserved. 4 Submission Guidelines All submissions are to be submitted through turn-it-in. Drop-boxes linked to turn-it-in will be set up in the Unit of Study Moodle account. Assignments not submitted through these drop-boxes will not be considered. Submissions must be made by the due date and time (which will be in the session detailed above) and determined by your Unit coordinator. Submissions made after the due date and time will be penalized at the rate of 10% per day (including weekend days). The turn-it-in similarity score will be used in determining the level if any of plagiarism. Turn-it-in will check conference web-sites, Journal articles, the Web and your own class member submissions for plagiarism. You can see your turn-it-in similarity score when you submit your assignment to the appropriate drop-box. If this is a concern you will have a chance to change your assignment and re-submit. However, re-submission is only allowed prior to the submission due date and time. After the due date and time have elapsed you cannot make re-submissions and you will have to live with the similarity score as there will be no chance for changing. Thus, plan early and submit early to take advantage of this feature. You can make multiple submissions, but please remember we only see the last submission, and the date and time you submitted will be taken from that submission. Your document should be a single word or pdf document containing your report. PLEASE SCROLL DOWN FOR ARTICLE This article was downloaded by: [de Cesare, Sergio] On: 26 May 2011 Access details: Access Details: [subscription number 936086081] Publisher Taylor & Francis Informa Ltd Registered in England and Wales Registered Number: 1072954 Registered office: Mortimer House, 37- 41 Mortimer Street, London W1T 3JH, UK Enterprise Information Systems Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t748254467 A literature review on business process modelling: new frontiers of reusability Laden Aldina; Sergio de Cesarea a Department of Information Systems and Computing, Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK First published on: 07 April 2011 To cite this Article Aldin, Laden and de Cesare, Sergio(2011) 'A literature review on business process modelling: new frontiers of reusability', Enterprise Information Systems,, First published on: 07 April 2011 (iFirst) To link to this Article: DOI: 10.1080/17517575.2011.557443 URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17517575.2011.557443 Full terms and conditions of use: http://www.informaworld.com/terms-and-conditions-of-access.pdf This article may be used for research, teaching and private study purposes. Any substantial or systematic reproduction, re-distribution, re-selling, loan or sub-licensing, systematic supply or distribution in any form to anyone is expressly forbidden. The publisher does not give any warranty express or implied or make any representation that the contents will be complete or accurate or up to date. The accuracy of any instructions, formulae and drug doses should be independently verified with primary sources. The publisher shall not be liable for any loss, actions, claims, proceedings, demand or costs or damages whatsoever or howsoever caused arising directly or indirectly in connection with or arising out of the use of this material. http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t748254467 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17517575.2011.557443 http://www.informaworld.com/terms-and-conditions-of-access.pdf A literature review on business process modelling: new frontiers of reusability Laden Aldin{ and Sergio de Cesare* Department of Information Systems and Computing, Brunel University, Uxbridge UB8 3PH, UK (Received 29 April 2010; final version received 20 January 2011) Business process modelling (BPM) has become fundamental for modern enterprises due to the increasing rate of organisational change. As a consequence, business processes need to be continuously (re-)designed as well as subsequently aligned with the corresponding enterprise information systems. One major problem associated with the design of business processes is reusability. Reuse of business process models has the potential of increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of BPM. This article critically surveys the existing literature on the problem of BPM reusability and more specifically on that State-of-the-Art research that can provide or suggest the ‘elements’ required for the development of a methodology aimed at discovering reusable conceptual artefacts in the form of patterns. The article initially clarifies the definitions of business process and business process model; then, it sets out to explore the previous research conducted in areas that have an impact on reusability in BPM. The article concludes by distilling directions for future research towards the development of a patterns-based approach to BPM; an approach that brings together the contributions made by the research community in the areas of process mining and discovery, declarative approaches and ontologies. Keywords: literature review; business processes; patterns; ontologies and information systems 1. Introduction The effective design and execution of business processes are becoming increasingly important to modern business organisations. The need for an organisation to continuously redesign its business processes on a regular basis, as a way of aligning its operational practices with its changing business requirements, has been recognised for decades (Ackoff 1962). It is essential that business process changes are understood and represented systematically and their impact clearly defined (Morgan 2007). To reach such an understanding, there is a need to create business process models (Lindsay et al. 2003). These models represent current or future desired organisational behaviour in order to achieve various purposes including, for example, the control and monitoring of process execution. The growing extent to which business process modelling (BPM) occurs nowadays requires that such an activity be carried out systematically. This helps not only in increasing efficiency and *Corresponding author. Email:
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