Business Process Management Foundations and Engineering
The Business Process Management: foundations and engineering (BPM) group is a group in the Informatik i9 chair of the RWTH Aachen University. The focus of the BPM group is on the combination of data-based process analysis and the optimisation of processes in organisations.

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2023ss course: fundamentals of business process management

In this Master course, we will provide a broad introduction into business process management (BPM), and cover several areas of BPM in depth, such as process modelling, process analysis, process mining and process redesign. After this course, you’ll be able to apply business process management strategies to organisations, to communicate business processes in formal modelling notation, to analyse a process running in an actual organisation, propose improvements to the process, and use process data to substantiate your findings. Finally, you are able to communicate your findings in a corporate-appropriate style.

2023ss seminar: reliability in process mining

Process mining is a field of research that produces software and methodologies to optimise processes in organisations using recorded information. Analysts use process mining tools to analyse this information. For instance, bottlenecks, inefficiencies and optimisation opportunities may be identified. As large investment decisions may be based on these conclusions, it is of vital importance that the accuracy of process mining insights can be established, and that analysts can trust what the software indicates. This may have both technical and organisational aspects.

In this seminar, we are studying the accuracy and reliability of process mining techniques.

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About the group leader

Born in Boxtel, the Netherlands, Univ-Prof. Dr. Ir. Sander J.J. Leemans is a professor (W2) at the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule University (RWTH), Aachen, Germany.

His research interests include process mining, process discovery, conformance checking, stochastic process mining, and robotic process automation. In particular, he specialises in making solid academic techniques available to end-users, analysts and industry partners. He teaches business process management, business process modelling and business process improvement.

Office E2356-6011
Ahornstrasse 55
52074 Aachen, Germany
Consultation hour Every Tuesday 16:00-17:00
Zoom link on request
Website https://leemans.ch