Abstract Nowadays, process oriented software systems, like many business information systems, don't exist only in one single version, but in many variants for better coverage ...
This paper discusses the applicability of a process algebra, the -calculus, as a formal foundation for Business Process Management (BPM). We therefore investigate the -calculus fro...
Business processes can be described with diagrams, e.g. BPMN diagrams, or as text. Use cases are a text-based notation. They are semiformal: a business process is expressed as a s...
Jerzy R. Nawrocki, Tomasz Nedza, Miroslaw Ochodek,...
Techniques for reliably estimating development efforts are a fundamental requirement for a wide-scale dissemination of ontologies in business contexts. In this paper we account fo...
Business process management (BPM) has emerged as a dominant technology in current enterprise systems and business solutions. However, business processes are always evolving in cur...
Abstract. Business process models, often modelled using graphical languages like UML, serve as a base for communication between the stakeholders in the software development process...
In this paper we discuss the possible application of new concepts in web content extraction: utility assessment, utility annealing, and dynamic aggregated document generation. Aft...
In this paper, the challenges of information system evolution benefit assessment are reviewed. Classical investment criteria and their advantages and disadvantages with respect to...
The problem of the semantics-preserving data transformations during their exchange by e-business applications is addressed. A method for automatic generation of schema mappings is...