Corporate Performance Management através da integração de Business Intelligence e Business Process Management

Dissertação de mestrado integrado em Engenharia e Gestão de Sistemas de Informação

Process simulation support in BPM tools: The case of BPMN

Due to the increasing acceptance of BPM, nowadays BPM tools are extensively used in organizations. Core to BPM are the process modeling languages, of which BPMN is the one that has been receiving most attention these days. Once a business process is described using BPMN, one can use a process simulation approach in order to find its optimized form. In this context, the simulation of business processes, such as those defined in BPMN, appears as an obvious way of improving processes. This paper analyzes the business process modeling and simulation areas, identifying the elements that must be present in the BPMN language in order to allow processes described in BPMN to be simulated. During this analysis a set of existing BPM tools, which support BPMN, are compared regarding their limitations in terms of simulation support.

Modelação de processos num serviço de uma organização de ensino superior

Dissertação de mestrado integrado em Engenharia e Gestão Industrial

Modelos de simulação de processos por junção de componentes

Dissertação de mestrado integrado em Engenharia e Gestão de Sistemas de Informação

Plataforma de apoio à decisão nos cuidados de ginecologia e obstetrícia

Dissertação de mestrado integrado em Engenharia Biomédica (área de especialização em Informática Médica)

Portuguese strengths and fragilities on safety and health practices

Despite improvements over the years, accidents continue to be a scourge in the construction sector, leading to an increase in the number of journal articles addressing the issue, in an attempt to help construction industry to increase safety performance [1]. This paper aims to, helping construction industry and particulary tunneling community, describe the Portuguese approach to most typical health and safety problems in underground excavations performed with the Sequential Excavation Method (SEM). The article will address various topics, from safety management and organizational practices, to collective and personal protection equipment, to emergency planning. nt problems in safety and health matters are similar to several other countries, the paper will expose a compilation of Portuguese best practices used to solve that problems. This enunciation of best practices describes experience from most important and recognized Project Owners and Contractors in Portugal. In a second phase it will be analysed Portuguese weaknesses, identifying preventive measures, and their comparative importance, that should be adopted in Portugal in order to reduce accidents and health diseases.

Modelação de processos de negócio: análise comparativa de linguagens

Subjacente a qualquer projeto de Business Process Management (BPM) está a necessidade de representar processos de negócio, recorrendo a linguagens adequadas para o efeito. Neste artigo, partindo de uma revisão aprofundada da literatura mais relevante, faz-se uma análise comparativa de cinco das linguagens de modelação de processos de negócio atualmente mais utilizadas no âmbito dos projetos BPM. O objetivo principal é conhecer os pontos fortes e as maiores limitações de cada uma, de modo a poder traçar uma perspetiva comparativa entre elas. Para esse efeito, descrevem-se sucintamente as respetivas notações fazendo-se uma breve análise aos elementos utilizados por cada técnica de modelação. Depois de devidamente analisadas estabelece-se um framework comparativo de cada uma das notações relativamente a um conjunto de critérios relevantes para a sua comparação, assinalando os trabalhos mais relevantes.

Estudo do trabalho numa empresa de produção de pneus e implementação de ferramentas Lean

Dissertação de mestrado integrado em Engenharia e Gestão Industrial

Racionalização e redução de custos das TIC na Administração Pública: o caso da PSP

Dissertação de mestrado integrado em Engenharia e Gestão de Sistemas de Informação

Development of procedures for the design, optimization and manufacturing of customized orthopaedic and trauma implants: Geometrical/anatomical modelling from 3D medical imaging

Tese de Doutoramento (Programa Doutoral em Engenharia Biomédica)

Ontology-based representation and generation of workflows for micro-task human-machine computation

Doctoral Program in Computer Science

A domain-specific language for ETL patterns specification in Data Warehousing Systems

During the last few years many research efforts have been done to improve the design of ETL (Extract-Transform-Load) systems. ETL systems are considered very time-consuming, error-prone and complex involving several participants from different knowledge domains. ETL processes are one of the most important components of a data warehousing system that are strongly influenced by the complexity of business requirements, their changing and evolution. These aspects influence not only the structure of a data warehouse but also the structures of the data sources involved with. To minimize the negative impact of such variables, we propose the use of ETL patterns to build specific ETL packages. In this paper, we formalize this approach using BPMN (Business Process Modelling Language) for modelling more conceptual ETL workflows, mapping them to real execution primitives through the use of a domain-specific language that allows for the generation of specific instances that can be executed in an ETL commercial tool.

OPM3® Portugal project: information systems and technologies organizations: outcome analysis

Increasing the maturity in Project Management (PM) has become a goal for many organizations, leading them to adopt maturity models to assess the current state of its PM practices and compare them with the best practices in the industry where the organization is inserted. One of the main PM maturity models is the Organizational Project Management Maturity Model (OPM3®), developed by the Project Management Institute. This paper presents the Information Systems and Technologies organizations outcome analysis, of the assesses made by the OPM3® Portugal Project, identifying the PM processes that are “best” implemented in this particular industry and those in which it is urgent to improve. Additionally, a comparison between the different organizations’ size analyzed is presented.

Geotechnical engineering for sustainable transportation infrastructure

This paper highlights how transportation geotechnics can interact with transportation infrastructures and how through the planning, design, construction and maintenance can contribute to ensure solutions more safe, reliable and resilient in the future. In this context sustainable concepts are discussed and applied as best practices to preserve natural resources and assuring socio-economic and environment benefits for the society

Modelação de processos de negócio: análise comparativa de linguagens

Dissertação de mestrado integrado em Engenharia e Gestão de Sistemas de Informação