ArchiMate, a language for modelling an organisation from a holistic perspective, lacks guidelines and techniques for exploring each of its perspectives in depth. To address this issue, we propose to use the DEMO modelling technique and toolset as a front-end for ArchiMate. In particular, DEMO adds to ArchiMate a conceptual clarity, as well as tools and techniques for modelling business processe...

Design is a complex and ill-structured activity, which makes difficult the creation of efficient computational design systems. One way to enhance design systems capabilities is using machine learning techniques. In this paper we analyze machine learning in design from three different perspectives. We first use the process/product viewpoint, inferring some important aspects. The other perspectiv...

The second workshop on Security in Business Processes (SBP’13) was organised in conjunction with the 11th international conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2013). Over 20 participants attended the workshop to present and discuss 6 papers, the insights they offered and the issues they raised. During the half-day workshop, a number of important and emerging issues in this area were dis...

This paper presents a methodology for deriving business process descriptions based on terms in business contract. The aim is to assist process modellers in structuring collaborative interactions between parties, including their internal processes, to ensure contract-compliant behaviour. The methodology requires a formal model of contracts to facilitate process derivations and to form a basis fo...

One of the challenging issues for investors and professionals is appropriate models to evaluate financial situation of the firms. In this regard, many models have been extracted by researchers using different financial ratios to resolve these issues. However, choosing a model based on the conditions and users’ needs is complex. The main objective of this study is to identify the effect of conti...

In today's complex, dynamic and constantly changing environment, companies need to design and take systems and methods that can help them adapt themselves to the changeable and dynamic situation of competitive markets, and therefore improving marketing performance and generally the company’s performance. In this regard, business intelligence systems as a new method and tool can be considered as...

Background: As a result of factors such as digitization and rapid technology change, organizations are compelled to innovate their business models at an accelerated pace. While the domain model innovation has focused on understanding structuring process innovation, it offers limited guidance for evaluating during process. Business evaluation plays vital role in supporting decision-making about ...

This special issue of Data & Knowledge Engineering contains extended versions of four papers selected from the best papers of the ‘‘International Conference on Business Process Management: On the Application of Formal Methods to Process-Aware Information Systems’’ that took place in Eindhoven (The Netherlands) in June 2003. To put the contributions to this special issue into a wider perspective...