With the advent of Web services and orchestration specifications like BPEL it is possible to define workflows on an Internet-scale. In the health-care domain highly structured and ...
Enterprise-wide process harmonisation initiatives require the analysis of commonalities of existing business process models. That is, correspondences between activities are identif...
A measure for the quality of software is the extent to which it corresponds to the business objectives and requirements it was designed for. The earlier those who elicit the requir...
In this paper, we present an approach based on hierarchically structured business models as artifacts of business process modeling that are used in a stepwise acquisition process f...
Enterprises today wish to manage their IT resources so as to optimize business objectives, such as income, rather than IT metrics, such as response times. Therefore, we introduce ...