1. Increasing Complexity of Business Processes In recent years Business Process Management (BPM) attracted considerable attention, both in academia and practice. A growing research community is designing and investigating BPM approaches and techniques which are meanwhile widely-used in private and public organizations. The quantity and quality of literature concerning BPM, the existence of spec...

Business process management is indisputable an approach many organizations are aiming to adopt. While much emphasis is put on modeling business processes and designing information systems, the employees working in a process-oriented organization often struggle with these changes. Here, it is of major importance for organizations to take their employees with this change of mind towards processor...

Change management for evolving collaborative business process development is crucial when the business logic, transections and workflow change due to changes in business strategies or organizational and technical environment. During the change implementation, business processes are analyzed and improved ensuring that they capture the proposed change and they do not contain any undesired functio...

Successful enterprises are built on change. Increasingly, businesses operate in a rapidly evolving environment where the response to changing markets may of necessity be measured in hours and days instead of months and years. Responsiveness and adaptability will be the hallmarks of business success. BT is strategically placed as both a major potential facilitator of this change, as well as bene...

To be able to utilize Web-scale resources for business processes and to adapt these processes to the dynamic change of environments, business process management suites/systems (BPMS) must be able to gather, integrate and manage various types of data in the lifecycle of business processes. We discuss the issue of integrating data for business process management. We provide an overview on the cur...

Web services based on the service-oriented architecture framework provide a suitable technical foundation for making business processes accessible within enterprises and across enterprises. But to appropriately support dynamic business processes and their management, more is needed, namely, the ability to prescribe how Web services are used to implement activities within a business process, how...

Purpose – In the last two decades, a proliferation of Business Process Management (BPM) modeling languages, standards and software systems have given rise to much confusion and obstacles to adoption. Because new BPM languages and notations terminologies were not well defined, duplicate features are common. This paper makes sense of the myriad BPM standards, organising them in a classification f...

Agile processes allow organizations to flexibly react on new and unforeseen situations. However, modifications must adhere to the standards and quality requirements given by an organization. In this paper, the concept of inverse workflows is presented to support organizations in meeting this goal. Inverse workflows provide a means to explicitly express unwanted procedures and work situations. I...

Workflow systems in specific and Business Process Management Technologies in general, have significantly contributed to overcoming some of the integration problems of intra and inter enterprise process control and monitoring. However, the complexity of the interactions between heterogeneous and autonomous systems within the enterprise and often between trading partners in ever increasing. A num...