Business Artifacts are the core entities used by businesses to record information pertinent to their operations. Business operational models are representations of the processing of business artifacts. Traditional process modeling approaches focus on the actions taken to achieve a certain goal (verb-centric).Business artifact-centric modeling starts by identifying what is acted upon (noun-centr...

“Terrorists don’t think and move the way armies do. In Afghanistan they learned to hide when they suspected American Bombers were targeting them. To defeat groups like alQaeda, you have to attack as soon as you find them. With speed you can deny sanctuary to terrorists. In Afghanistan the Pentagon was able to reduce that time (the kill chain) to less than 10 minutes. But in those several minute...

We consider services as units in interorganizational business processes. Following trends in the business process management community, we switch from an activity-centric description of processes to artifact-centric descriptions. In the interorganizational setting, unique problems arise. For instance, an artifact hub that is crucial for present-day enactment of artifact-centric processes, can h...

A White Paper discussing the productivity increase to be gained by the continued convergence and integration of “data-centric” and “document-centric” technologies.

This paper presents a new Integrated Technical Reference Model (I-TRM) using a multilayered architecture. Most existing technical reference models concentrate on one aspect of a system, like information processing or control structure. The I-TRM is based on a classical closed-loop control system. It combines an Information-Centric Technical Reference Model (IC-TRM), a Control Technical Referenc...

The service industry has traditionally relied on physical documents to communicate and manage their project and operational activities. As they adopt the object-centric view of Web2.0 technologies in their productivity tools, knowledge-based workers now have to work with interconnected object-centric view of information where they earlier had to deal with only documents created from wordprocess...

The main objective of this paper is to survey, in a schematic and generic way, the major models and approaches concerning the construction and execution of Web information systems. Basically we found three different approaches: server-centric, client-centric and distributed infrastructure-centric applications. We discuss the major strengths and weaknesses of the current Web technology, in this ...