Spreadsheets as Interoperability Solution for Business Process Representation

Business process interoperability: extended abstract

Business Process Interoperability with Living Ontologies

The Business Process Interoperability Living Ontologies (BPILO) project is developing tools for comparing models of business processes across multiple organizations. Models are represented on two levels: users work with familiar diagrams, while the system works internally with OWL. A swarming model unification algorithm converts original models expressed in heterogeneous terminology into unifie...

Addressing Interoperability Issues in Business Process Management

As part of the INTEROP NoE first phase work, interoperability requirements and existing facilities on the area of Business Process Management were studied. This paper summarizes the contributions and discusses current research trends. Business Process Management is seen as a set of continuous processes in an enterprise related to the strategic decisions, production and delivery workflows, IT su...

Business process interoperability and collaborative performance measurement

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Analysis and improvement of business process models using spreadsheets

Software in general is thoroughly analyzed before it is released to its users. Business processes often are not – at least not as thoroughly as it could be – before they are released to their users, e.g., employees or software agents. This paper ascribes this practice to the lack of suitable instruments for business process analysts, who design the processes, their processes. We use the spreads...