Government assistance to business enterprise is ubiquitous. Much of what governments do – from highway construction to educational funding to the administration of the courts to direct fiscal outlays to firms – directly or indirectly promotes business activity. At the same time, governments discourage business activity by imposing costs on firms in the form of taxes and regulatory requirements....

So far, academic research has mainly focused on the description of successful Business Process Improvement implementations. Usually only the situations before and after implementation are outlined, but not the actual act of improvement. In summary, high level descriptions of business cases with limited potential for generalization form the existing body of knowledge around Business Process Impr...

Most enterprises utilize Web Content Management System (CMS) for the development and maintenance of their web applications. A CMS provides a high quality platform and creates web applications based on software configuration instead of software engineering from scratch. Although there are numerous advantages to implementing a CMS, there are two downsides not solved: for complex applications ther...

This paper discusses the key elements of effective and successful strategies for organisations engaging in Business-to-Business (B2B) Electronic Markets. Existing literature have concentrated on developing schemas for categorising B2B Electronic Markets, and evaluating the innovative business models they employ, with less focus on understanding the business value of B2B Electronic Markets from ...

Boundary algebra (BA) is a mathematical alternative to standard algebra. It represents numbers and functions using space and boundaries, which can be manipulated with three simple equivalence rules. In BA, the behavior of large constructions, such as complex numbers and transcendental functions, can be directly deduced from the basic rules of BA, suggesting that it represents a fundamental core...

In this paper we propose a logical foundation of processes and their focused normal forms. We use a linear meta-language based on substructural operational semantics to describe focused forms of processes, and compare them to standard π-calculus processes with their respective operational semantics. The overall goal of this research is to understand how to reason about processes, multiparty com...

Flexibility of business processes requires a modeling language that can distinguish between the stable and flexible parts of a business process. Starting from a general model of business interaction, we develop the model of the stable part in the form of an Collaboration Model. We assume that changes of this model are rare and carefully planned. The flexible part is stored in socalled business ...

The paper presents business rules approach to the development of web services based elearning systems. The main contribution of this approach is a centralized way to capture, automate, manage and process learning knowledge in the form of rules, and to use it within e-learning system. The generic elearning system architecture has been extended by integrating business supporting business processe...

SBVR is becoming more and more popular as the metamodel for defining vocabulary based business rules. In an extended form SBVR can be used to declare a whole spectrum of business rules including control-flow and organizational rules. Enforcing the rules of the business in information systems is however not straightforward. SBVR leaves open the gap between defining business rules and actually en...

Syrup is an adaptive Workflow system with a difference. Like any other Workflow solution, Syrup can be used to describe the tasks, procedural steps, required input and output information and tools needed for each step in a business process [1]. To be able to do this, Syrup provides five basic concepts: Tasks, Links, Workflows, Workers and the WorkSpace. Additionally, the minimal core is build i...