In this paper, we examine the design of business process diagrams in contexts where novice analysts only have basic design tools such as paper and pencils available, and little to no understanding of formalized modeling approaches. Based on a quasi-experimental study with 89 BPM students, we identify five distinct process design archetypes ranging from textual to hybrid, and graphical represent...

Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL4WS) allows defining both, business processes that make use of Web services, and business processes that externalize their functionality as Web services. This short paper introduces the basic language elements of BPEL4WS using a simple example. The concepts underlying the language are briefly explained: Establishing bilateral partnership...

This paper describes work undertaken in the ADEPT (Advanced Decision Environment for Process Tasks) project towards developing an agent-based infrastructure for managing business processes. We describe how the key technology of negotiating, service providing, autonomous agents was realised and demonstrate how this was applied to the BT (British Telecom) business process of providing a customer ...

Many enterprises nowadays use business processes, based on the BPEL standard, to achieve their goals. These are complex, often distributed, processes. Monitoring the execution of such processes for interesting patterns is critical for enforcing business policies and meeting efficiency and reliability goals. BP-Mon (Business Processes Monitoring) is a novel query language for monitoring business...

Strategic alignment is a mechanism by which an organization can visualize the relationship between its business processes and strategies. It enables organizational decision makers to collect meaningful insights based on their current processes. Currently it is difficult to show the sustainability of an organization and to determine an optimal set of processes that are required for realizing str...

Many companies have adopted Process-aware Information Systems (PAIS) for supporting their business processes in some form. These systems typically log events (e.g., in transaction logs or audit trails) related to the actual business process executions. Proper analysis of PAIS execution logs can yield important knowledge and help organizations improve the quality of their services. Starting from...

Changes in business processes correlate with changes in dependencies. The fundamental question we deal with in this paper is which dependencies may show up in business processes and how to find those dependencies. This paper presents a generic classification of dependencies that may show up in every situation. All of these dependencies have to be taken care off through coordination mechanisms. ...

Business processes that span organizational borders describe the interaction between multiple parties working towards a common objective. They also express business rules that govern the behavior of the process and account for expressing changes reflecting new business objectives and new market situations. We developed a service request language and support framework that allow users to formula...

The problem of interest to us is how to design such structure, with a particular approach in mind: to start with a general normative structure that gives a pattern from which to derive a design. This idea is related to several proposals for frameworks that enterprises have used to guide architecture design, such as Zachman’s framework [13, 25]. But we depart from such proposals in that our inte...

Choices in business processes are often based on the process history saved as a log-file listing events and their time stamps. In this paper we introduce a finite-path variant of the timed propositional logics with past for specifying guards in business process models. The novelty is due to the introduction of boundary points start and now corresponding to the starting and current observation p...