this paper presents an appropriate categorization of business processes in order to study the different aspects of knowledge management for each kind of business processes. in this categorization, business processes are classified into the four categories including work-flow oriented, decision oriented, information oriented and motivation oriented. then, the special attributes and knowledge man...

Business process management (BPM), business process reengineering (BPR), and business process innovation (BPI) have been the primary strategies adopted by several organizations to manage their business successfully along with IT. In the last few years, the concept of BPM, BPR, and BPI has been a hot topic among the IS community, which is evident in the degree of literatures devoted to it. Due t...

This special issue of Data & Knowledge Engineering contains extended versions of four papers selected from the best papers of the ‘‘International Conference on Business Process Management: On the Application of Formal Methods to Process-Aware Information Systems’’ that took place in Eindhoven (The Netherlands) in June 2003. To put the contributions to this special issue into a wider perspective...

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...

«Event-Driven Business Process Management» (EDBPM) is a combination of actually two different disciplines: Business Process Management (BPM) and Complex Event Processing (CEP). In this paper we present a general framework for EDBPM as well as first use cases in the context of logistics and financial services. 1. EVENT-DRIVEN BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT «Event-Driven Business Process Management»...

Separation of concerns has long been considered an effective and efficient strategy to deal with complexity in information systems. One sort of concern crosses over other concerns, which makes their management difficult. Aspect Orientation is a paradigm in information systems which aims to encapsulate cross-cutting concerns to overcome this problem. In the Business Process Management (BPM) area...