Traditionally, workflow management systems aim at alleviating people's burden of coordinating repetitive business procedures, i.e., they coordinate people. Web service orchest...
We investigate the concept of norm compliance in business process modeling. In particular we propose an extension of Formal Contract Logic (FCL), a combination of defeasible logic ...
Over the past several years, the artifact-centric approach to workflow has emerged as a new paradigm of business process modelling. It provides a robust structure of workflow and s...
Abstract: This paper addresses the problem of expressing preferences among nonfunctional properties of services in a Web service architecture. In such a context, semantic and non-f...
Business process models are an important tool in understanding and improving the efficiency of a business and in the design of information systems. Recent work has evaluated busin...
A key element of any approach to meeting the climate change challenge is the ability to improve operational efficiency in a pervasive fashion. The notion of a business process is a...
Business Process Management (BPM) technology has become an important instrument for improving process performance. When considering its use, however, enterprises typically have to...
Business process re-engineering is becoming a main focus in today's efforts to overcome problems and deficits in the automotive and aerospace industries (e.g., integration in...
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...
Abstract. One of the problem in business process reengineering is the identification and implementation of new workflow procedures for specific business processes, if they are not ...