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)

Instructor and Office Hours:

Ajay Kumar (csajaykr at comp dot polyu dot edu dot hk)
Office: PQ 835 
Office hours: Fri 5:30pm - 7:00pm or by appointment

Lecture schedule:

First Class for Spring 2012 starts on Jan 9 in EF 312

Mon	18:30 - 20:30	EF-312
Mon	20:30 - 21:30	EF-312 or PQ603/QT402

Indicative Reference Books:

No prerequisite - An undergraduate level understanding of basic computer 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, 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. The lab sessions of this course are focussed to provide hands on experience in the design, development and implementation of business process workflow/webflow solutions and XML based collaboration tools.

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Teaching Materials:

• Lecture Notes #1 --- (Course Outline & Contents)
• Lecture Notes #2 --- (Organizing Workflows)
• Lecture Notes #3 --- (Modeling Workflows)

 

Lab Tutorial Material

       Lab #3-5 Reference Notes--- (Business Process Modeling and Execution using BizAgi)

       Special Lab Session Files --- (Business Process Modeling and Execution using BizAgi)

       XML Lab Tutorials (All Supporting Material) 

Grading:

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

• Assignment 1 - 20%
• Assignment 2 - 25%
• 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:

• Assignment 1 - Submission Deadline 26/02/2012 [23:55 Hrs]
• Assignment 2 - Submission Deadline 25/03/2012 [23:55 Hrs]

Quiz:

Assessments:

• Assessment 1 (Assignment/Lab # 1, Evaluation results available from WebCT on xx/03/2012) On 20/10/08 (18:30-20:30; PQ-305)

• Assessment 2 (Assignment # 2, Evaluation results available from WebCT on xx/04/2012)On 17/11/08 (18:30-20:30; PQ-305) - Results

Resources:

• Business Process Modeling using BizAgi (Supporting Resources)
• http://www.workflowcourse.com
• http://www.processmining.com
• http://www.workflowpatterns.com
• http://is.tm.tue.nl
• http://is.tm.tue.nl/staff/wvdaalst

Business to Business Integration:       

• XML Lab/Tutorials: W3 Schema Tutorial, XML Training Guide, altova.com
• RosettaNet - http://www.rosettanet.org
• ebXML - http://www.ebxml.org http://www.tutorialpoint.com/ebxml/ebxml_architecture.htm
• OASIS - http://www.oasis-open.org
• UN/CEFACT - http://www.uncefact.org
• BizTalk - http://www.biztalk.org
• eCompliance - http://www.ecompliance.net 

Teaching Assistant:

• Mr. Chun-Wei Tan (cscwtan at comp dot polyu dot edu hk)