Abstract. This paper proposes the incremental goal evolution process methodology from the view point of the approach to business process optimization. This paper first presents a p...
When different businesses want to integrate part of their processes and IT, they need to relate their enterprise architecture frameworks. An enterprise architecture framework (EAF)...
- Extended Abstract of Industrial Talk IT services are an important means to achieve competitive advantages by creating new business models or by reducing costs. Furthermore, there...
Virtual organizations are perceived as a means for achieving flexibility. However, shared inter-organizational business processes may pose additional constraints on the internal pr...
Striking a balance between rigidity and flexibility is a central challenge in designing business processes. Striking this balance begins on the type level, because expressiveness ...
When an organization decides on the level of flexibility in handling business process instances, it needs to impose this level in operational practice. The way of imposing a given ...
When modeling business processes, we often implicity think of internal business policies and external regulations. Yet to date, little attention is paid to avoid hard-coding polici...
Abstract. Contemporary information systems struggle with the requirement to provide flexibility and process support while still enforcing some degree of control. Workflow managemen...
: Service processes are a special type of business processes playing an increasingly important role in modern economies. They require new forms of flexibility not found in ordinary...