Maria Shitkova

• MSc
• University of Münster

Nowadays hospitals face the problem of increasing quality and at the same time reducing costs of their services. Clinical pathways approach has established itself as an effective method of reorganization of medical practice in a process-oriented way. Since more than a decade, clinical pathways are being created and applied in hospitals in the USA,...

Business Process Management (BPM) has become a widespread practice in organizations. Companies use business process models to document their internal processes for training purposes, optimization, certification or requirements specification. However, as the modeling projects are often carried out by distributed teams of BPM experts, the resulting m...

In times of demanding requirements for BPM projects, providing an additional access point from a mobile device to the process modeling tool for efficient communication of process models and distributed modeling is of high importance. In this article, we present a mobile application (app) prototype for the web-based business process modeling tool ic...

The primary focus of NeuroIS research from a methodological perspective is set on methods and research design, data collection, and data analysis. In this paper, we address a practical problem, related to the data collection phase, namely the choice of a data collection instrument, or a NeuroIS tool. Before making a tool decision, researchers have...

The choice of a business process modelling (BPM) tool in combination with the selection of a modelling language is one of the crucial steps in BPM project preparation. Different aspects influence the decision: tool functionality, price, modelling language support, etc. In this paper we discuss the aspect of usability, which has already been recogni...

Providing high quality process models in a timely manner can be of major impact on almost all process management projects. Modeling methodologies in the form of normative procedure models and process modeling guidelines are available to facilitate this cause. Modeling languages and according tools, however, do neglect the available methodologies. O...

Companies have accepted process modeling as a powerful instrument for business reorganization, requirements specification in software development, knowledge management and other activities. Huge amounts of processes are being modeled in organizations nowadays. However, the re-use of existing process knowledge in order to simplify the modeling proce...

Process model repositories management is a complex endeavor including modeling and publishing challenges. Existing modeling notations like BPMN or EPC are not able to cover the requirements induced by the volumes of such process model collections (PMC). The modeling technique proposed in this work addresses these requirements and enables organizati...

We introduce a pattern matching approach for conceptual models suitable for a number of model analysis scenarios like process weakness detection, process compliance checking, syntax verification and model translation. The approach does not depend on any particular modeling language which is achieved by treating conceptual models as labeled graphs....

Within this article the prototype icebricks is described by its main characteristics which are layers of abstraction, attribution, reference models and semantic standardization by the use of a glossary. The layers are predefined in order to enhance the clarity and comparability of the processes. Attribution is used – beside the layers of abstractio...

Usability is widely used in software engineering as a criterion of product quality and acceptance. Studies revealed that one dollar investment in usability brings 10 times more profit than investments in advertising. Usability of websites and desktop applications has been extensively investigated during the last decades. However, little was done in...

This paper examines parallels in version management between software engineering and process modelling. Best practices in software engineering version management, identified by a literature review, are discussed in the context of process modelling. Based on the results, a concept for version management in process modelling is derived. We present bo...