Business Processes play a key role in Business-to-Business (B2B) and Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) scenarios by exposing the appropriate invocation and interaction patterns. They also introduce a two-level programming model for building heterogeneous and distributed applications (workflow-based applications). Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL4WS) provides the...

Monitoring business processes is an important area in Business Process Management. This area not only supports monitoring but also enables flexibility. Thus, it has been investigated in many other areas like Business Activity Monitoring, Exception Handling, Aspect Oriented Business Process Management, etc. These areas require to define how a process instance should be monitored from different p...

The process-centered design of organizations and information systems is globally seen as an appropriate response to the increased economic pressure on organizations. At the methodological core of process-centered management is process modeling. However, business process modeling in large initiatives can be a time-consuming and costly exercise, making it potentially difficult to convince executi...

Information and communication technology has experienced a vast development and increased usage over the past few years. This development again yields to increasing energy consumption. In this paper we provide a research agenda that picks up this serious development and suggests first approaches how holistic energy efficiency could be introduced in enterprises without neglecting a company’s per...

Rapid business change demands the ability to adapt, rearrange and reinvent business processes while keeping the alignment with supporting information systems. However, such tasks require a business process to be consistently specified and modelled. To address this issue, this paper describes an organizational taxonomy that defines a controlled vocabulary to design business processes using the c...

Not least due to the widespread use of meta modeling concepts, model transformation techniques have reached a certain level of maturity (Czarnecki and Helsen, 2006). Nevertheless, defining transformations in some application areas in our case business process modeling is still a challenge because current transformation languages provide general solutions but do not support issues specific to a ...

Flexible Distributed Business Process Management Vinod Muthusamy Doctor of Philosophy Graduate Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Toronto 2011 Many large business processes are inherently distributed, spanning multiple organizations, administrative domains, and geographic locations. To support such applications, this thesis develops a flexible and distributed platfo...

In this work we customized the RUP process with Scrum practices, and proposed a differentiate traceability matrix, applying in a small company. The experimental results show that our customization can be adopted as an alternative to a systematic and less-intrusive process. Keywords— Software Development Process, Scrum, RUP

Visualizing business process models in various ways supports modelers in creation and users in understanding. Therefore we present a flexible and extensible meta model based approach to enhance business process models by multiple visualizations. These visualizations are geared to the so called perspectives of a business process model and emphasize different aspects of a business process model.

It is apparent that developing dynamic models of business processes prior to their change could increase the success of business renovation (BR) projects. Simulation has an important role in modelling and analysing the activities in introducing BR since it enables quantitative estimations of influence of the redesigned process on system performances. An example is presented to investigate some ...