: Advanced business processes are mostly distributed and require highly flexible management capabilities. In such scenarios, process parts often leave their initiator’s direct sp...
The body of literature on SMEs suggest that all SMEs seem to go through different life cycles, and while the terms used by different authors may vary, the events that govern them ...
The inherent distributed structure of business rules shows a high affinity to the execution of business processes across the internet, as needed for e-business and e-commerce. Howe...
In E-commerce processes, various rules and constraints regarding product specifications, pricing, terms and conditions are exchanged between vendors and buyers. Developing a forma...
Mizuho Iwaihara, Masayuki Kozawa, Jun Narazaki, Ya...
The trend towards highly specialized solution providers cooperatively offering configurable products and services to their customers requires the extension of current (standalone)...
Alexander Felfernig, Gerhard Friedrich, Dietmar Ja...
Conceptual modeling techniques such as EER, ORM and to some extent the UML have been developed in the past for building information systems. These techniques or suitable extensions...
The emergence of the Internet has changed the way in which many aspects of business are conducted. One such aspect, that of resource discovery, is being changed by the development ...
Carlos N. Cumberbatch, Suzanne M. Embury, Carole A...
The development of the Semantic Web proceeds in layers. Currently the most advanced layer that has reached maturity is the ontology layer, in the form of the DAML+OIL language whic...