Business collaboration encompasses the coordination of information flows among organizations as well as the composition of their business processes toward mutual benefits. While integrating business processes of different organizations seamlessly, it brings great challenges to keep participating organizations as autonomous entities. To address this issue, we propose a new perspective on modelin...

Businesses typically structure their activities with workflows, which are often implemented in a rather static fashion in their IT systems. Nowadays, system requirements change rapidly as businesses try to maintain their competitive edge, calling for similar agility of the IT systems. To this end, we present StPowla, an approach that marries service oriented architecture, policies and workflows...

Technological advancements in mobile communications enable new ways of doing business [Feld00, 26; StGi03], often referred to as “mobile business” or “mobile commerce”. While Turowski/Pousttchi do not distinguish between the two but rather use the term “mobile commerce” [TuPo03, 3], Lehner and Zobel define “mobile business” as the application of mobile technologies to improve or extend business...

The aim of this paper is to give an overview of computer modelling and simulation in cellular biology, in particular as applied to complex biochemical processes within the cell. This is illustrated by the use of the techniques of object-oriented modelling, where the computer is used to construct abstractions of objects in the domain being modelled, and these objects then interact within the com...

Recently an object-oriented approach has been applied in the fields of finite element analysis with a view to treating the various complexities within these. It has been demonstrated that finite element software designed using an object-oriented approach can be significantly more robust than traditional codes. This paper describes a special kind of implementation of object-oriented programming ...

Software process planning involves the consideration of process based factors, e.g., development strategies, but also social factors, e.g., collaboration of developers. To facilitate project managers in decision making during the project, we develop an agent-based simulation tool which allows them to test di↵erent alternative future scenarios. For this, it is indispensable to understand softwar...

Business processes are the core assets of enterprises. They turn the business potential into actual competitiveness on the market. To face the challenges posed by today’s changing and uncertain business environment, traditional business process management (BPM) approaches are not sufficient anymore. This paper presents an approach to business process management, which leverages Agent Technology...

The paper develops a method for transformational implementation of business processes in a service oriented architecture. The method promotes separation of concerns and allows making business decisions by business people and technical decisions by technical people. To achieve this goal, a description of a business process designed by business people is automatically translated into a program in...

Business process modeling refers to the design of business process models, using business processes languages, to orchestrate the work executed by employees, their interaction with external entities, and work items that are necessary to achieve a predefined goal. Modeldriven development allows people, generally called modelers, to design also sophisticated application logic using high-level abs...