The software product family approach aims at curtailing the concept of “reinventing the wheel” in the software development process. The business has been highlighted as one of the critical dimensions in the process of software product family. This work presents an assessment framework for evaluating the business dimension of software product family process. Additionally, a software product fami...

In an e-commerce environment, contracts are important for attaining business process interoperability and enforcing their proper enactment. An e-contract is the computerized facilitation or automation of a contract in a cross-organizational business process. We find that econtract facilitation can be divided into multiple levels and perspectives, which has not been adequately addressed before. ...

The motivation of the paper is to introduce an agentbased business process model in the Java simulation experiment. A virtual company trading processes are simulated in order to use proposed methods as a part of a decision support tool. As in other cases, such simulation needs sufficient input parameters. However, in the case of business systems, real business parameters are not always availabl...

The Enterprise Business Cooperation Mode is analyzed, as a result, an multi-agent based business cooperation framework is presented. The agent configuration in the framework is explained respectively, and a case of business process reengineering with multi-agent is discussed to prove the feasibility of the framework.

Patterns currently play an important role in modern information systems (IS) development and their use has mainly been restricted to the design and implementation phases of the development lifecycle. Given the increasing significance of business modeling in IS development, patterns have the potential of providing a viable solution for promoting reusability of recurrent generalized models in the...

In order to respond quickly to changing market requirements, a business organisation needs to increase the level of agility in all phases of the business process engineering chain. Business process (BP) modelling is the first and most important phase in this chain. Designing a new and redesigning an existing process model is a highly complex, time consuming and error prone task. In this work, w...

In model-driven software development approaches, business process models are used at different levels in the development process. For instance, in ServiceOriented Architectures (SOA) high-level business process models become input for the development of IT systems and in running IT systems executable process models describe choreographies of Web Services. A key driver behind this development is...