In complex organizations Business Processes tends to exist in different variants that typically share objectives and part of their structure. In recent years it has been recognized that the explicit modeling of variability can brings important benefits to organizations that can more easily reflect on their behavior and more efficiently structure their activities and processes. Particularly inte...

For increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of public administration as well as improving the usability and adaptability of systems state-of-the-art semantic technologies can be combined with existing business process management (BPM) approaches in e-government. This position paper shows ontology-based approaches as implemented within the EU-project FIT. In FIT the customer approved busines...

In recent years, Business Process Management has gained maturity in private and public organizations. Organization own large process collections. Organizing, analyzing, and managing them becomes more complex. In the course of this development, research on Business Process Architectures has gotten more attention over the last decade. A Business Process Architecture describes the relationships be...

Vladimir Pucik is Assistant Professor of International Business and Organizational Behavior at the School of Business, The University of Michigan. He was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia where he studied international economics, law, and political science. Later, he received a master's degree in international affairs specializing in East Asia and a Ph.D. in business administration from Columbia U...

Processes that are related to the identification and the authentication of persons and other legal entities have been necessarily existing and functioning for a while in public administration and business. Information Society offers new e-services for citizens and businesses, which dramatically change the administration and results in additional challenges, risks and opportunities. Citizen’s co...