With the expectable growth of the number of Web services available on the WWW and service repositories, the need for mechanisms that enable the automatic organization and discovery...
This paper comes back to the problem of coordination of cooperative activities with a Workflow management system. First, we describe the differences that we have noted between busi...
Abstract. The application of process mining techniques to real-life corporate environments has been of an ad-hoc nature so far, focused on proving the concept. One major reason for...
Complexity has undesirable effects on, among others, the correctness, maintainability, and understandability of business process models. Yet, measuring complexity of business proce...
Jorge Cardoso, Jan Mendling, Gustaf Neumann, Hajo ...
Dynamic assembly of complex software is possible through automated composition of web services. Coordination scripts identify and orchestrate a number of services to fulfil a user ...
Many business solutions provide best practice process templates, both generic as well as for specific industry sectors. However, it is often the variance from template solutions th...
Interdependence between the subsystems of an enterprise is one of the driving reasons for integrating the enterprise. Integration attempts to manage those interdependencies so all ...
Mining, discovering, and integrating process-oriented services has attracted growing attention in the recent year. Workflow precedence graph and workflow block structures are two i...
Electronic contracts describe inter-organizational business processes in terms of supply and consumption of electronic services (commonly Web services). In a given contract domain,...
Marcelo Fantinato, Itana Maria de Souza Gimenes, M...