COMP 5524 - Workflow Management and Collaborative Systems

COMP 5524 - Workflow Management and Collaborative Systems
Spring 2009
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

Instructor/Office Hrs

Lecture Schedule

Reference Book

Suggested Prerequisites

Course Objectives

Teaching Materials

Grading

Grading Policy

Assignments

Quizzes

Assessments

Resources

Teaching Assistant
Useful Links (Useful Material and Journal Article's)

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Instructor and Office Hours:

Ajay Kumar (csajaykr at comp.polyu.edu.hk)
Office: PQ 831
Office hours: Fri 5:30pm - 7:00pm or by appointment

Lecture schedule:

First Class for Spring 2009 starts on Jan 13 in HJ-309
Tue	18:30 - 20:30	HJ-304
Tue	20:30 - 21:30	HJ-304

Indicative Reference Books:

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nRashid N. Khan, Business Process Management: A Practical Guide, Meghan-Kiffer Press, 2004.

nD. Chaffey, Groupware, Workflow and Intranets: Reengineering the Enterprise with Collaborative Software, Digital Press, 1998.

L. Fischer (Editor), Workflow Handbook, Future Strategies, 2005.

Suggested Prerequisites:

No prerequisite - An undergraduate level understanding of basic compute skills is assumed since this course is directed for postgraduate students.

Course Objectives:

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The course will be directed to provide broad understanding of collaborative systems so as to streamline intra-organizational and inter-organizational business process. It includes the study of business process reengineering and balanced scorecard framework, process lifecycle, process modeling and analysis, system integration through EAI and XML technology, enterprise portal, document management and imaging system. Industry standard such as WfMC workflow reference model and XML consortiums (e.g. RosettaNet, ebXML) formed in various industry will also be covered.

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Teaching Materials:

Lecture Notes #1 --- (Course Outline & Contents)
Lecture Notes #2 --- (Organizing Workflows)
Lecture Notes #3 --- (Groupware Collaborative Systems)
Lecture Notes #4 --- (Modeling Workflows - A)
Lecture Notes #5 --- (Modeling Workflows - B)
Lecture Notes #6 --- (Analyzing Workflows)
Lecture Notes #7 --- (The Balanced Scorecard)
Lecture Notes #8 --- (Workflow System Architecture)
Lecture Notes #9 --- (Workflow System Development)
Lecture Notes #10 --- (XML)
Lecture Notes #11 --- (Trusted Electronic Transactions)
Lecture Notes #12 --- (Business to Business Integration)

Grading:

The tentative weight associated with each grading component is as follows:

Assignment 1 - 25%
Assignment 2 - 20%
Final Exam - 55%

Grading Policy:

Assignments have to be handed in before lecture begins on the due date.
Make-up for exams will be issued only under exceptional circumstances provided prior arrangements are made with the instructor.
Instructor reserves the right to deny requests for make-up exams.

Assignments: