Application integration is a major trend in information technology today. In this paper we present a number of principles for the design, validation and presentation of process mod...
Over the past decade, there has been a lot of work in developing middleware for integrating and automating enterprise business processes. Today, with the growth in e-commerce and ...
: This paper introduces the Calculating with Concepts (CC) technique, which has been developed to improve the precision of UML class diagrams and allows the formal reasoning based ...
Business rules are statements that express (certain parts of) a business policy, defining business terms and defining or constraining the operations of an enterprise, in a declar...
Business processes play a central role in the reorganization of a company and the (re)design of the respective information system(s). Typically the processes are described with the...
The future of service-centric environments suggests that organizations will dynamically discover and utilize web services for new business processes particularly those that span m...
M. Brian Blake, Michael F. Nowlan, Ajay Bansal, Sr...
—Web service paradigm and related technologies have provided favorable means for the realization of collaborative business processes. From both conceptual and implementation poin...
Workflow Management Systems need to support organizations adapt their workflows to meet changing environments and business processes. We propose a traceability based knowledge man...
For many companies, the strategic as well as the organizational fit of their information systems is a pivotal factor for staying competitive. At the same time, there is an increas...
For the majority of front-end e-business systems, the assumption of a coherent and homogeneous set of interfaces is highly unrealistic. Problems start in the back-end, with system...
Giacomo Piccinelli, Wolfgang Emmerich, Christian Z...