Tools for remote team collaboration within businesses have been available since the mid-1980s. Two opposing trends cause complete collaboration solutions to remain elusive. On the one hand, core tool capabilities are developed as point solutions, and then extra functions are added. These added functions may not integrate well with or be as fully developed as the core functionality. On the other...

A process modeling language is declarative when it explicitly takes into account the business concerns that govern business processes. In this paper, we show how business concerns can be modeled declaratively using a fact-oriented business vocabulary that allows to express sixteen different business rule types. In particular, we present the EMBrACE Framework, an extension of the SBVR that allow...

Business process modelling is widely considered as the most critical task in the development of enterprise information systems that address the actual needs of a company. As business processes cross functional and sometimes company boundaries, the coordinated inclusion of diverse perspectives and knowledge sources is necessary. Towards this end, this paper presents an information systems framew...

This paper presents a case study conducted in a semi-conductor manufacturing company concerning information systems planning in the context of reengineering business models for elogistics. A framework based on business process reengineering (BPR) is described. To enhance BPR efforts, the benchmarking technique is introduced as an analysis tool for redesigning business models. The framework emph...

The analysis of business requirements and the specification of business processes are fundamental for the development of information systems. The first part of this paper presents B-Tropos as a way to combine business goals and requirements to the business process model. B-Tropos enhances a well-known agent-oriented early requirements engineering framework with declarative business process-orie...

The growing number of business process solutions demands the need of platforms enabling developers to build management applications in a more efficient manner. This paper describes an adaptive platform, called BPSM (Business Process Solution Management), for managing business process solutions. A business process solution touches many enterprise entities: multiple business processes, different ...

Business process management (BPM) has emerged as a dominant technology in current enterprise systems and business solutions. However, business processes are always evolving in current dynamic business environments where requirements and goals are constantly changing. Whereas literature reports on the importance of domain experts in process modelling and adaptations, current solutions have not a...