APSEC 2022
Tue 6 - Fri 9 December 2022
Thu 8 Dec 2022 15:35 - 15:50 at Room1 - Agile, Business process, and Human Aspects Chair(s): Shahida Sulaiman

As companies run their business (e.g., sales, procurement), they conduct a set of business processes that include activities and flows connecting them. There exist an enormous number of patterns of business processes, or process-patterns. This industrial paper proposes a new technique, RP2A (Rare Process-Pattern Analysis), to examine process-patterns for finding operational problems such as compliance violations. The technique analyzes system execution data (= event log and user information) stored in the system related to the processes. By a combination of process-pattern search and activity search, RP2A discovers potential problem process-patterns in terms of execution frequency. We also report an industrial case study carried out using the technique. By analyzing the system execution data corrected from the 6-month system operation, we identified all 373 process-patterns, and 31 potential problem process-patterns out of them. Then, 4 domain experts in the industry verified the 31 process-patterns and found that 18 process-patterns, namely more than half of them (58% (= 18/31)) contain actual problems. Almost problems are violations of internal policies which even the domain experts did not recognize. The technique succeeded in finding a kind of unknown problems in the business processes.

Thu 8 Dec

Displayed time zone: Osaka, Sapporo, Tokyo change

15:00 - 16:30
Agile, Business process, and Human AspectsERA - Early Research Achievements / Technical Track / SEIP - Software Engineering in Practice at Room1
Chair(s): Shahida Sulaiman Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
15:00
15m
Paper
AMF: A Field to Realize the Values of Agile Manifesto Through Retrospective
ERA - Early Research Achievements
Ikkaku Kawaguchi University of Tsukuba, Yasuhiro Hayase University of Tsukuba, Kyohei Kobayashi Deloitte Tohmatsu Consulting LLC, Chiemi Watanabe Tsukuba University of Technology
15:15
20m
Paper
Quantifying the Similarity of BPMN Processes
Technical Track
Gwen Salaün University of Grenoble Alpes
15:35
15m
Paper
RP2A: Rare Process-Pattern Analysis - Identifying Potential Problem Process-Patterns by Analyzing System Execution Data-Best SEIP Paper Award
SEIP - Software Engineering in Practice
Shinobu Saito NTT, Kenji Takahashi NTT Security, Yasuyuki Hamada NTT Security Holidings, Jan Vermeulen NTT Americas
15:50
20m
Paper
Incorporating Ethics in Software Engineering: Challenges and Opportunities
Technical Track
Anna Mitchell University of St Andrews, Dharini Balasubramaniam University of St Andrews, Jade Fletcher University of St Andrews
16:10
15m
Paper
Preliminary Analysis of the Influence of the Stereotype Threat on Computer Programming
ERA - Early Research Achievements
Yuriko Takatsuka Kindai University, Masateru Tsunoda Kindai University