Process Modeling, Analysis, and (Re-)Enactment

Process Modeling, Analysis, and (Re-)Enactment

John Noll
Assistant Professor, Santa Clara University
Abstract:
Almost three decades of research into organizational process modeling has produced a rich landscape of modeling approaches and notations, raging from natural language descriptions to graphical notations to process "programming" languages. These vary in expressiveness, formality, and complexity to satisfy specific research goals.

This talk presents a notation and associated tools designed with three goals: suitability, simplicity, and enactability. The intent is a language that is easy to learn, allows rapid capture of processes, yet yields models that can be analyzed and executed.

These tools have been used successfully to model and analyze real world processes in varying domains, from software development to financial management.
Biography:
John Noll is Assistant Professor in the Computer Engineering department at Santa Clara University. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California, where he was a Research Associate with the ATRIUM laboratory in the Marshall School of Business. He has also taught USC, UCLA, and the University of Colorado (Denver), and held positions at Perceptronics, Inc., Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, and Network Appliance, Inc. His research interests include software engineering, workflow, and computer supported cooperative work.