Today’s business climate requires you to constantly evolve IT strategies responding to new opportunities or threats. While the fundamentals of IT reliability, availability, security and manageability – are still crucial, rapid results are mandatory for business success. These business challenges can be solved by acting with agility – striking the proper balance between the introduction of leadi...

One of the key activities in developing information systems is that of modeling the constituent parts of both existing and future business processes so that the resultant system is aligned to the business. This duality of scope often referred to as co-development, provides the basis for aligning technical systems to business processes and business goals and has a profound effect on the effectiv...

Organizations have to face new challenges, hold new opportunities, conquer and maintain important customers and get a better strategic position as faster as possible. The principles used in Autonomic Computing can be adapted to help them survive in this dynamic business scenario. Thus, organizations should count on processes that can be able to selfconfigure, self-heal, self-optimize and self-p...

In this paper we present a logic-based approach for querying business process repositories. The proposed solution is based on a synergic use of an ontological framework (OPAL) aimed at capturing the semantics of a business scenario, and a business process modelling framework (BPAL) to represent the workflow logic. Both frameworks are grounded in logic programming and therefore it is possible to...

As the dynamicity of today's business environments keeps increasing, there is a need to continuously adapt business processes in order to respond to the changes in those environments and keep a competitive level. By using complex event processing, we can discover information that is relevant to our organization, which is usually hidden among the data generated in the environment, and use it to ...

In order to provide information needed in knowledge-intense business processes, large companies often establish intranet portals, which enable access to their process handbook. Especially, for large business processes comprising hundreds or thousands of process steps, these portals can help to avoid time-consuming access to paper-based process documentation. However, business processes are usua...

This paper presents a method for semantically aligning business processes. We provide a representation of Petri nets in the ontology language OWL, to semantically enrich the business process models. On top of this, we propose a technique for semantically aligning business processes to support (semi)automatic interconnectivity of business processes. This semantic alignment is improved by a backg...

Increasingly, organisations need to adapt to new conditions and competitive pressures. Various change management approaches such as business process reengineering have been developed to meet this perceived need. This paper investigates the potential of simulation modelling for modelling business processes. After a discussion on business processes related issues, an overview of business process ...

Variance in business process execution can be the result of several situations, such as disconnection between documented models and business operations, workarounds in spite of process execution engines, dynamic change and exception handling, flexible and ad-hoc requirements, and collaborative and/or knowledge intensive work. It is imperative that effective support for managing process variance...