The application of semantic technologies promises boosting business process management because semantic integration of business and IT is achieved. To enable the vision of semantic business process management, semantic technologies like ontologies, reasoners, and semantic Web services must be integrated in BPM tools. We extended a professional BPM tool to allow semantic business process modelli...

Development of efficient business process models and determination of their characteristic properties are subject of intense interdisciplinary research. Here, we consider a business process model as a directed graph. Its nodes correspond to the units identified by the modeler and the link direction indicates the causal dependencies between units. It is of primary interest to obtain the stationa...

In this paper we present a new approach for integrating Business Process Management and Knowledge Management. We focus on the modelling of weakly-structured knowledge-intensive business processes. We develop a framework for modelling this type of processes that explicitly considers knowledge-related tasks and knowledge objects and present a workflow tool that is an implementation of our theoret...

Automatic discovery of process models from event logs is an important and promising area in Business Process Management. Process models document how business processes should be performed, so they capture different concerns related to business processes. Some of these concerns are not limited to one process model, and they are repeated in many others as well, called cross-cutting concerns. Alth...

For supporting process interconnection, on top of an existing open-source Business Process Management (BPM) environment oriented to Web Services (modeling module and execution engine, BPEL Business Process Execution Language compatible), this paper will propose a support to task-oriented, interactive decisional activities to be performed by CNO (Collaborative Networked Organizations) Actors. At...

Modern organisations are increasingly moving from traditional monolithic business systems to environments where more and more tasks are outsourced to third party providers. Therefore, processes must operate in an open and dynamic environment in which the management of time plays a crucial role. Handling time, however, remains a challenging issue yet to be fully addressed. Traditional processing...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess whether the business process management (BPM) approach contributes to applying systemic characteristics in organisations. Design/methodology/approach – This is a theoretical and descriptive work based on a review of the literature on BPM and systemic approach. Findings – From the analysis of its stages, it was possible to find a strong correspond...