Descripción del proyecto
Cambiar las reglas de los procesos empresariales
Las empresas modernas utilizan los procesos operativos para lograr un mejor rendimiento. Sin embargo, las estrategias nuevas suelen basarse en una experiencia humana limitada. El objetivo del proyecto PIX, financiado con fondos europeos, es cambiar completamente las reglas e introducir una nueva generación de métodos de mejora de los procesos. En lugar de mejorar un mecanismo de una determinada solución o actividad, propone un análisis sistemático, multidimensional y automatizado de todos los posibles cambios de actitud ante un problema. Crea un mapa completo de soluciones para obtener la opción más óptima mediante el uso de los datos de ejecución del proceso. Para lograrlo, PIX creará marcos conceptuales y algoritmos que permitan un análisis profundo de los procesos de ejecución de datos.
Objetivo
Business processes are the operational backbone of modern organizations. Their continuous improvement is key to the achievement of business objectives, be it with respect to efficiency, quality, compliance, or agility. Accordingly, a common task for process analysts is to discover and assess process improvement opportunities, i.e. changes to one or more processes, which are likely to improve them with respect to one or more performance measures. Current approaches to discover process improvement opportunities are expert-driven. In these approaches, data are used to assess opportunities derived from experience and intuition rather than to discover them in the first place. Moreover, as the assessment of opportunities is manual, analysts can only explore a fraction thereof.
PIX will build the foundations of a new generation of process improvement methods that do not exclusively rely on guidelines and heuristics, but rather on a systematic exploration of a space of possible changes derived from process execution data. Specifically, PIX will develop conceptual frameworks and algorithms to analyze process execution data in order to discover process changes corresponding to possible improvement opportunities, including changes in the control-flow dependencies between activities, partial automation of activities, changes in resource allocation rules, or changes in decision rules that may reduce wastes or negative outcomes. Each change will be associated with a multi-dimensional utility, thus allowing us to map a process improvement problem to an optimization problem over a multidimensional space. Given this mapping, PIX will develop efficient and incremental methods to search through said spaces in order to find Pareto-optimal groups of changes. The outputs will be embodied in a first-of-its-kind tool for automated process improvement discovery, which will lift the focus in the field of process mining from analyzing as-is processes to designing to-be processes.
Ámbito científico
Programa(s)
Régimen de financiación
ERC-ADG - Advanced GrantInstitución de acogida
51005 Tartu
Estonia
Organización definida por ella misma como pequeña y mediana empresa (pyme) en el momento de la firma del acuerdo de subvención.