Business processes present business logic of enterprises and or web services. In current Internet based dynamic business environment, business logic and resource allocation may have to change more frequently than before to match various business conditions in time. Business process deployment is a very costly procedure. It is desirable that a business process reengineering action could be verif...

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...

This paper reports on ongoing work towards a framework to automatically rewrite business process models and, thereby, correctively enforce adherence to regulatory compliance and security policies. Specifically, the paper first motivates the need for rewriting mechanisms as a means to enforce a particular class of properties. Second, it describes the main building blocks of ReWrite, the framewor...

Many different methods and techniques can be used for modelling business processes within business process renovation (BPR) projects. There are several techniques and tools that attempt to effectively represent all modelling perspectives and fulfil all goals and objectives but as such generate complex models that are hard to understand and reduce their ease of use. One of widely used techniques...

Implementation of electronic prescribing system can overcome many problems of the paper prescribing system, and provide numerous opportunities of more effective and advantageous prescribing. Successful implementation of such a system requires complete and deep understanding of work content, human force, and workflow of paper prescribing. The current study was designed in order to model the curr...

studies show that private sector organizations in many developed countries utilize business process reengineering (bpr). management theories indicate that bpr has spilled over to these countries' public organizations as well. while defining bpr and its methodology, this article focuses on characteristic features of state-owned organizations and on how these features impact the implementati...