Majority of state-of-the art enterprises are using business process management systems (BPMS) to bridge the gap between the business needs and IT implementations. But as enterprises do change over time due to government regulations and market requirements, these systems need to change over time. A goal of this thesis to investigate what types of changes usually occur and what is their impact on enterprise information systems based on BPMS.

Steps to take:

1. Explore state-of-the-art BPMS.

2. Explore how BPMS handle versioning.

3. Create a proof-of-concept case study with minor and major changes.

4. Propose best practices how to handle these changes.

This topic is offered by the #CCMi research group and will be customized based on the student’s professional preferences.

Communication by email is notoriously ineffective. Messages tend to get lost, forgotten and it is not straightforward to oversee the whole process. Despite that, many enterprises are still using the email communication to support the operation of their company.

A process mining offers a technique to automatically extract operation of the company from the emails. A goal of this thesis is to explore how efficient is this and what it takes to generate supporting IT systems directly from the discovered business processes.

Steps to take:

1. Explore the state-of-the-art process mining tools.

2. Explore the state-of-the-art business process management systems and low-code platforms.

3. Propose a way to extract business processes from emails and support them with IT systems.

4. Create a case study to demonstrate the proposed concept.

This topic is offered by the #CCMi research group and will be customized based on the student’s professional preferences.

Process mining (PM) is a technique to extract business processes from event logs already existing in the organization. State-of-the-art PM tools extract the models in a form of a flowchart that can be really large for complex domains. Design and Engineering Methodology for Organizations (DEMO) is a methodology for analyzing and modelling organizations and its processes.

A goal of this thesis is to apply DEMO techniques to reduce the complexity of the discovered models and help managers to get a better insight into their enterprise.

Steps to take:

• Learn the DEMO business process modelling.

• Learn about the process mining.

• Create a web-based tool that helps to devise DEMO models from the models discovered by the process mining. Use Asp .NET Core and client side framework such as Angular.

• Evaluate whether this approach brings benefits over the techniques used in process mining tools.

This topic is offered by the #CCMi research group.

Design and Engineering Methodology for Organizations (DEMO) is a methodology for analysing and modeling organizations and its processes. Several modeling tools that support this methodology (see http://www.ee-institute.org/en/demo/tools" style="text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.ee-institute.org/en/demo/tools, however, these tools are closed-source and do not support all DEMO aspect models according to their latest DEMO specification. The main goal of this project is to deliver an open-source web-based modelling environment with a high user experience that can be used as a standard across the enterprise-engineering community, and in DEMO certification courses.

Steps to take:

• Review the latest DEMO model notation.

• Design a DEMO model designer with high user experience.

• Create a web DEMO model designer based on open-source .NET technologies and client side frameworks such as Angular

This topic is offered by the #CCMi research group and it can be customized based on the student’s skills and preferences.