IoT-aware Business Processes (BPs) that exchange data with Internet of Things (IoT) devices, briefly referred to as BPs, are gaining momentum in the BPM field. Introducing IoT technologies from early stages BP development process requires dealing complexity and heterogeneity such at design analysis time. This paper analyzes widely used frameworks ontologies introduce a BPMN extension improves e...

This paper presents of a field-tested framework for improving knowledge-intensive business processes. This framework addresses a gap in the area of knowledge-based process improvement identified via a literature review. It also addresses weaknesses and shortcomings related to the knowledge aspects of business processes of established process improvement methodologies such as TQM and Six Sigma. ...

This paper introduces a new concept, the software continuum concept based on the observation that exists a general parallelism between the software continuum from bits to business/Internet ecosystems and the natural continuum from particles to ecosystems. The general parallelism suggests that homeomorphisms may be identified and therefore some concepts, processes, and/or mechanisms in one conti...

Business Process Reengineering is a reverse design process that allows for radical improvement in quality, service, cycle times, productivity and cost for a specific market or customer of a company. To support BPR project in the company, several methodologies are emerging, each of them focused on the analysis of the company’ Business Processes. These BPR methodologies, share one common task: mo...

in today's business environment in which coordination and adaptation with constant changes are the only ways of survival, real-time monitoring of activities and making the decisions accordingly are necessary. since performance measurement cannot be managed independent of business processes, business activity monitoring (bam) systems should monitor performance metrics based on business processes...

Seit der Liberalisierung der Energiewirtschaft Ende der 90er Jahre des letzten Jahrhunderts spielt die Industrialisierung dieses Sektors eine immer wichtigere Rolle. Um im Wettbewerb bestehen zu können, müssen Unternehmen der Stromwirtschaft sich stärker prozessorientiert aufstellen und ihre Organisation dementsprechend anpassen. Ein entsprechendes Referenzmodell fehlt zurzeit, könnte jedoch di...

Recently the demand on business process modelling (BPM) became apparent in many different communities. To provide a unifying framework we propose an approach to integrate (well known) knowledge engineering techniques into a business process modelling context. We see knowledge based systems as one possibility (among others) to implement (re-engineered) business processes or parts thereof. Our fr...

Modeling of business processes, based on Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN), helps analysts and managers to understand business processes, and, identify their shortages. These models provide a context to make rational decision of organizing business processes activities in an understandable manner. The purpose of this paper is to provide a framework for better understanding of business p...

Managing an enterprise architecture is a challenging task. While careful planning typically goes into its design, an enterprise architecture actually emerges as a result of implementing individual projects. It is this de facto architecture, not the conceptual one, that provides the capabilities for executing business strategies, and understanding this emergent architecture is of paramount impor...