Web services have been recognized to have the potential to revolutionize ecommerce. The potential for businesses to be able to interact with each other on the fly is very appealing. To date, however, the activity of creating Web processes using Web services has been handled mostly at the syntactic level. Current composition standards focus on building the processes based on the interface descri...

Geographical phenomena involve entities and changes that are located in both space and time. Therefore, it is not an unjust germane to declare each geographical phenomena as spatio – temporal phenomena. As a result of that, building a taxonomy of spatio – temporal phenomena implies an analysis of the representation of facts and occurrences within a space – time framework. While the absolute app...

Business Process Management (BPM) lifecycle consists of goals specification, through the other phases such as design, implementation, execution, enactment, monitoring and evaluation of BP During process enactment information collected about execution plans that are stored in the form of log files and database tables, with information systems (IS) and use .In the past decade it has emerged a new...

An Open Source Software (OSS) project can be considered as a new type of business entity involving various roles and stakeholders, e.g., project managers, developers, and users, who apply individual methods. The project managers have the responsibility to manage the OSS development in a way that the OSS product can be delivered to the customers in time and with good quality. This responsibility...

Web services composition is an emerging paradigm for enabling inter and intra organizational integration, and a landscape of languages and techniques for modeling business processes in web service based environments has emerged and is continuously being enriched. With the advent of modeling standards, different business sectors are investigating the options for modeling their workflows. In term...

We discuss the evolution of Praxis, a model-driven process framework, building on feedback from educational and professional applications, along the past fifteen years. We follow the evolution from Praxis first version to the current one, discussing what was introduced in each. For past and current versions, we classify model improvements, discussing their nature and rationale, derived from rec...

With the uptake of business process modeling in practice, the demand grows for guidelines that lead to consistent and integrated collections of process models. The notion of a business process architecture has been explicitly proposed to address this. This paper provides an overview of the prevailing approaches to design a business process architecture. Furthermore, it includes evaluations of t...

Software Process Intelligence (SPI) is an emerging and evolving discipline involving mining and analysis of software processes. This is modeled on the lines of Business Process Intelligence (BPI), but with the focus on software processes and its applicability in software systems. Process mining consists of mining event log and process trace data for the purpose of process discovery (run-time pr...

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) innovates as it defines both the product as a central element to aggregate enterprise information and the lifecycle as a new time dimension for information integration and analysis. Because of its potential benefits to shorten innovation lead-times and to reduce costs, PLM has attracted a lot of attention at industry and at research. However, the current PLM i...

Designing, analyzing and managing complex processes are recently become crucial issues in most application contexts, such as ecommerce, business process (re-)engineering, Web/grid computing. In this paper, we propose a framework that supports the designer in the definition and in the analysis of complex processes by means of several facilities for reusing, customizing and generalizing existent ...