The formalization of process definitions has been an invaluable aid in many domains. However, noticeable variations in processes start to emerge as precise details are added to process definitions. While each such variation gives rise to a different process, these processes might more usefully be considered as variants of each other, rather than completely different processes. This paper propos...

This chapter presents a process modeling approach for holistic process management. The main idea is that domain specific process models are required both to capture the contents of a process based application and to present a process model in a user friendly way. We presents how perspective oriented process modeling supports domain specific process model. Besides we describe how this approach c...

With the increasing adoption of process-aware information systems (PAIS), large process model repositories have emerged. Over time respective models have to be re-aligned to the real-world business processes through customization or adaptation. This bears the risk that model redundancies are introduced and complexity is increased. If no continuous investment is made in keeping models simple, ch...

Software testing is still a pain-in-the-neck for many organisations. Because it is only marginally addressed in software process improvement models like CMM, a separate Testing Process Improvement model is needed. The current authors have implemented a structured testing process guided by the “Testing Maturity Model” (TMM). An outline of this model is presented, showing how with growing maturit...

Research on quality issues of business process models has recently begun to explore the process of creating process models. With growing complexity, the creation of business process models requires the presence of several, potentially spatially distributed stakeholders. As a consequence, the question arises how this affects the process of process modeling. This paper describes a thesis working ...

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Since the early nineties business processes have been coming more and more into the focus of IS research. As a consequence numerous approaches to process modelling have been developed such as Event-driven Process Chains (EPCs, ARIS House of Business), Semantic Object Model (SOM), Bonapart and INCOME/STAR. Many of these approaches concentrate on the socio-technical dimension of business processe...

Event-Driven Process Chains (EPC) is a business process modeling language developed in a joint effort between SAP and the Institute of Information Systems of Saarbrücken in the context of the Architecture of Integrated Information Systems (ARIS) framework (Keller, Scheer, & Nüttgens, 1992). One of the initial purposes of EPC was to configure workflows in ERP software such as SAP R/3. As the lan...