Business Intelligence and Process Modelling
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This course is on Business Intelligence (BI) and Process Modelling (PM), and is part of the (dutch) bachelor program "Informatica & Economie" (specialization Business Information Systems) of Leiden University.
News:- The textual comments from the 2016 evaluation forms are available here.
Course information
Lectures: Fridays from 11:15 to 13:00 in the spring semester of 2016 in
Snellius room 402.
Werkcolleges: Fridays from 13:45 to 15:30 in room 302/304.
Lecturer: dr. Frank Takes, f.w.takes@liacs.leidenuniv.nl, Snellius room 157b
Student assistants : Thomas Prikkel BSc, t.c.prikkel@umail.leidenuniv.nl and Thomas Helling BSc, t.j.helling@umail.leidenuniv.nl
Literature: W. van der Aalst, Process Mining: Discovery, Conformance and Enhancement of Business Processes, Springer, 2011.
Examination: exam (60%) and three practical assignments (together 40%)
Study points: 6 ECTS
Timetable
| Date | Lecture | Werkcollege | Literature | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Feb 5, 2016 | Introduction | Orientation on Assignment 1 | v/d Aalst Chapter 1 |
| 2. | Feb 12, 2016 | Business Intelligence & Visual Analytics | Work on Assignment 1 | v/d Aalst Chapter 1 |
| 3. | Feb 19, 2016 | Data Mining for BI (11:15) Webtechnology crash-course (13:30 in 407/409) |
Work on Assignment 1 (15:15) | v/d Aalst Chapter 3 W3schools.com |
| 4. | Feb 26, 2016 | Data Mining for BI & Service-Oriented Architectures | Work on Assignment 1 | v/d Aalst Chapter 3 |
| Mar 4, 2016 | Deadline for Assignment 1 | |||
| 5. | Mar 4, 2016 | Network Science for BI | Assignment 1 & 10 minutes to Pandas | Kleinberg Chapter 1 |
| 6. | Mar 11, 2016 | Network Analytics for BI | Pandas cookbook & Assignment 2 | Kleinberg Chapter 2 |
| 7. | Mar 18, 2016 | Network Learning & Process Modelling | Algorithmia & Scikit-learn & Assignment 2 | v/d Aalst Chapter 2 |
| Mar 25, 2016 | No lecture | |||
| 8. | Apr 1, 2016 | Petri nets | Work on Assignment 2 | v/d Aalst Chapter 2 & 4 |
| Apr |
Deadline for Assignment 2 (no lecture) | Work on Assignment 2 | ||
| 9. | Apr 15, 2016 | Process Mining & BPMN Werkcollege Petri nets (answers) |
Work on Assignment 3 | v/d Aalst Chapter 4 & 8 |
| 10. | Apr 22, 2016 | Process Discovery | Work on Assignment 3 | v/d Aalst Chapter 5 & 7 |
| 11. | Apr 29, 2016 | Process Modelling in Financial Markets (guest Lecture by Pieter Kwantes) |
Work on Assignment 3 | Paper [Kwantes2006] Article 1 & 2 |
| May 6, 2016 | No lecture | |||
| May 13, 2016 | No lecture | |||
| May 20, 2016 | No lecture | Lab session: work on Assignment 3 | ||
| May 23, 2016 | Deadline for Assignment 3 | |||
| 12. | June 3, 2016 | Course Recap & Evalution | No lab session | |
| June 10, 2016 | Exam (14:00-17:00) and answers | Lecture slides, v/d Aalst chapters 1,2,3,4,5,7,8 and 10 and understand the general ideas behind Kleinberg chapter
1 &
2 and
[Kwantes2006].
You can skip v/d Aalst sections 2.2.1 2.2.4, 2.2.6, 2.2.7, the precise specification of XES in 4.3, chapter 6, 11, 12, 13, 14,
and any formal notation from chapter 6 onwards. You may want to draw and practice a bit more with Petri nets. Also see the 2015 exam and answers. |
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| June 17, 2016 | Retake deadline for all assignments | |||
| July 7, 2016 | There is no retake exam. Contact the lecturer for details. |
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N.B. There is no class on March 25 (Goede Vrijdag), April 8 and May 6 (after Bevrijdingsdag).
Also see the "I&E roosters".
Course description (from your study guide 2015-2016 )
In a dynamic world organizations must constantly optimize, update, and monitor the execution of their processes to stay competitive and efficient. These processes are developed on the basis of organizational targets and strategic goals, but of course the underlying IT landscape is also of influence on process design, development, implementation, and execution. In this course business and IT come together in a data-driven approach to understanding business process management.
The course was also given in 2015, see BIPM 2015