Business process modeling has facilitated modern enterprises to cope with the constant need to increase their productivity, reduce costs and offer competitive products and services. Despite modeling’s and process management’s widespread success, one may argue that it lacks of built-in security mechanisms able to detect and deter threats that may manifest throughout the process. To this end, a v...

The literature on continuous monitoring of cross-organizational processes, executed within virtual enterprises or business networks, considers monitoring as an issue regarding the network formation, since what can be monitored during process execution is fixed when the network is established. In particular, the impact of evolving agreements in such networks on continuous monitoring is not consi...

Big Data is a rapidly evolving and maturing field which places significant data storage processing power at our disposal. To take advantage of this power, we need to create new means collecting large volumes high speed. Meanwhile, as companies organizations, such health services, realize the importance value "joined-up thinking" across supply chains healthcare pathways, for example, creates dem...

Modeling the strategic objectives has been shown to be useful both for understanding a business as well as planning and guiding the overall activities within an enterprise. Business strategy is modeled according to human expertise, setting up the goals as well as the indicators that monitor activities and goals. However, usually indicators provide highlevel aggregated views of data, making it d...

Recommender systems (RS) are increasingly adopted by ebusiness, social networks and many other user-centric websites. Based on the user’s previous choices or interests, a RS suggests new items in which the user might be interested. With constant changes in user behavior, the quality of a RS may decrease over time. Therefore, we need to monitor the performance of the RS, giving timely informatio...

This paper examines the predictive content of coincident variables for monitoring U.S. recessions in the presence of instabilities. We propose several specifications of a probit model for classifying phases of the business cycle. We find strong evidence in favor of the ones that allow for the possibility that the economy has experienced recurrent breaks. The recession probabilities of these mod...

Business processes and their implementation as Web Service Compositions are not only dependent on Web Services and partners all over the Internet, but also on their failsafe execution. Service providers have to obligate their services to perform according to negotiated Quality of Service (QoS) parameters. For example, response time and throughput are important parameters to achieve fast and eff...

The Object Management Group (OMG) is promoting the Model Driven Architecture (MDA) approach to support interaction among enterprises based on business process models. Based on this approach, we discuss in this paper how to specify performance indicators among the levels with different degree of abstraction suggested in MDA. These indicators will drive the monitoring activities to check the exec...