The upstream activities of software development projects are often viewed as both the most important, the least understood, and hence the most problematic. This is particularly no...
A translation of the Business Process Modeling Notation into the process calculus COWS is presented. The stochastic extension of COWS is then exploited to address quantitative reas...
For a particular business process, typically, different variants exist. Each of them constitutes an adjustment of a basic process (e.g. a reference process) to specific requirement...
Process models are considered to be a major asset in modern business organizations. They are expected to apply to all the possible business contexts in which the process may be exe...
Recently, service orientation has increasingly been debated both in research and practice. While researchers postulate a paradigm shift towards services as the basic unit of excha...