The integration of mobile workplaces in the (electronically mapped) intra-enterprise value chain is a major and still increasing corporate IT issue. Although the usage of mobile technologies for this purpose is far behind expectations and numerous failures can be observed, still little work has been done on theory building in this area. In this contribution we identify and compare existing fram...

Spatial data is generally considered to be complex and difficult to integrate into users’ business processes. Therefore we are looking to semantic to improve our customers’ experience in two ways. Firstly, to provide the means to repurpose our data according to customers’ terminology, which will in effect increase our product portfolio. Secondly, the technology can facilitate the integration of...

The MOVE-project aims at a general methodology and a reusable software framework to support the coordination and cooperation in virtual enterprises and to optimise individual business processes and required resources. This article examines the requirements for computer supported planning in virtual enterprises with a focus on optimisation of the partly contradictionary objectives satisfying cus...

For organisations to survive and flourish in a changing environment, their business processes need to be flexible. Ashby’s law of requisite variety applied to business processes postulates that a robust process needs to exhibit as much as variety in its responses as there are stimuli in its environment. An essential aspect of the design of a business process is to know to what stimuli it needs ...

In recent years organisations have been seeking technological solutions for enacting their business process models using ad hoc and heuristic approaches. However, limited results have been obtained due to the expansion of business processes across geographical boundaries and the absence of structured methods, frameworks and/or Information Technology (IT) infrastructures to enact these processes...

process mining includes the automated discovery of petri nets from event logs. these event logs are the starting point for various discovery and analysis techniques of the process.  in this paper process model is developed using colored petri nets (cpns) and the supporting software package cpn tools. the restaurant process model is represented for the analysis using a combination of process min...

A challenge for any enterprise is to ensure conformance of its business processes with imposed compliance rules. The latter may constrain multiple perspectives of a business process, including control flow, data, time, resources, and interactions with business partners. However, business process compliance cannot completely be decided at design time, but needs to be monitored during run time as...

• Customer satisfaction: The result of optimizing and aligning business processes to fulfi ll customers’ needs, wants, and desires. • Cost reduction: The result of optimizing operations and supplier processes. • Cycle and fulfi llment time reduction: The result of optimizing the manufacturing and logistics processes. • Quality: The result of optimizing the design, development, and production pr...

This deliverable is concerned with Semantic Business Process Management (abbreviated as SBPM), especially its cornerstone Business Process Modeling Ontology (BPMO). Basically, the document focuses on the requirements analysis and design of BPMO, which is considered as the semantic description framework for business process in the SemBiz project. To determine the description requirements for bus...